Monument record MDO587 - Bowl barrow, Burleston

One of four barrows on Burleston Down, at the west end of a scatter that extends into the adjacent parishes of Dewlish and Milborne. All have been heavily ploughed. In 1970 the monument was recorded as about 90 feet in diameter, with a surviving height of about 2 and a half feet. The site is visible as a cropmark double-ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery.

Six round barrows on Lords Down: B: SY 77989635. Bowl barrow 50 yards east of (A). Diameter about 90 feet, height 2 1/2 feet. <2>

These barrows have been reduced by ploughing since 1970 and now measure: 'B' SY 77989634, diameter 36.0m., height 1.2m.
A, B under pasture: C-E in arable. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <3>

2 Bronze Age bowl barrows located 580 metres south east of Crawthorne Farm. They lie 15 metres apart forming part of a fragmentary and dispersed group of barrows on Lord's Down . The eastern barrow has a mound 30 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. The western barrow has a mound 35 metres in diameter and 0.75 metres high. Surrounding each mound is a quarry ditch. <4>

The site is visible as a cropmark double-ring ditch on aerial photographs <7-8> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne 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, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 783963) Tumulus (NR) (twice) Tumuli (NR) (twice)

<2> 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. … (8) Bowl (77989635), 50 yds. E. of (3); diam. about 90 ft., ht. 2½ ft.’

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 06-SEP-2001 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454535 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1348441 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> J R Boyden, 26-JUN-1970, JRB 289/609 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20871.

<8> National Monuments Record, 30-MAR-1982, NMR 2110/1268 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20879.

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

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 2:37PM