Monument record MDO584 - Bowl barrow, Burleston

Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a very slight mound. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 45 feet in diameter. The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

Vague, and becoming ploughed out. Height 1 ft. Bowl barrow. <2>

Auth 2 is largely correct. The slopes of the barrow, which is under grass fall gently into the natural slopes around it thus making measurements approximate. Diameter 20.0m. Height 0.5m. No trace of a surrounding ditch and no signs of mutilation. A bowl barrow. <3>

A bowl barrow at SY 77849599, on a gentle north slope on the summit of the down, has been ploughed almost flat. It is about 45 feet in diameter. <4>

SY 77849599. No change. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Barrow 15 paces in diameter, and ploughed nearly flat. <6>

The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. <8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 77849599) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 22-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 55 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘Four barrows lie above 250 ft. O.D. on Burleston Down at the W. end of a scatter that extends into the adjacent parishes of Dewlish and Milborne; all have been heavily ploughed. … (5) Bowl (77849599), on a gentle N. slope on the summit of the down; ploughed almost flat; diam. about 45 ft.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 35 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454570 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 2:35PM