Monument record MDO5886 - Bowl barrow, one of the King Down Group, Pamphill

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs on King Down, Pamphill. It is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 15m across with traces of an inner mound. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

King Down Group of four barrows on the crest of a ridge, about 160 ft. above O.D. All have been damaged by ploughing, and (c) and (d) have been largely flattened. From one of these came two barrel urns, one of 'South Lodge' type. … (C) Bowl (98060345); diam. 45 ft., ht. under 1 ft. <1>

Air photographs taken April 15th 2002 show A and B extant as earthwork mounds and removed from cultivation. C and D are visible as ring ditches. Equidistant from the last two, and almost in between them, is another very small ring ditch. <3>

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs on King Down, Pamphill <4>. It is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 15m across with traces of an inner mound. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 53 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘King Down Group consists of four barrows on the crest of a ridge, about 160 ft. above O.D. All have been damaged by ploughing, and (88) and (89) have been largely flattened. From one of these came two barrel urns, one of ‘South Lodge’ type (Arch., XLIII (1871), 356-7; Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 54-5). (88) Bowl (98060345); diam. 45 ft., ht. under 1 ft.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 980034) Tumuli (NR)

<3> 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/17 ST 9803/5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20397.

<4> National Monuments Record, 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/17, 19-20 (NMR ST9803/5-7) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16277.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209471 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2023 7:17PM