Monument record MDO585 - Bowl barrow, Burleston

Bowl barrow immediately north of the Puddletown-Milborne road. In 1970 the monument was recorded as about 45 feet in diameter, with a surviving height of about 9 inches. The site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery.

A bowl barrow 20 paces in diameter and 1 1/2 ft high. <2>

A grass covered bowl barrow 18.0 metres in diameter, 1.0 metres high on the W side and 0.3 metres high on the E side. <3>

A bowl barrow at SY 77699632, immediately north of the road, is about 45 feet in diameter by 9 inches high. <5>

SY 77699631. No change. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

The site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 20m across on aerial photographs <8> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery <9>.

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

(SY 77689631) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 13-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 54-55 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(6) Bowl (77699632), immediately N. of the Puddletown-Milborne road; diam. about 45 ft., ht. 9 ins.’

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454543 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> J R Boyden, 26-JUN-1970, JRB 289/609 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20871.

<9> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Aug 12 2024 8:02PM