Monument record MDO592 - Bind Barrow, Burton Bradstock

Bronze Age bowl barrow situated in a prominent position on top of a hill close to the cliff edge. Damaged probably by wartime activities leaving it uneven and misshapen with a circular area of concrete on the top. The barrow is visible on lidar taken in 2009.

The name applies to an ancient burial mound, supposed to be of British origin. <1>

Bind Barrow, bowl barrow, 950 yards S.E of the church, is about 64ft. In diam and 5ft. High. <3>

A possible bowl barrow, composed of gravel and earth. The mound has been dug into and mutilated on the top, but the sides are grass covered. The diameter is 17.0m. It is 0.6m high on the N side and 1.8m high on the S side. There is no visible surrounding ditch. <4>

BIND BARROW. Diameter 33 paces, height 10 ft Natural or artificial. <7>

A bowl barrow, known as Bind Barrow, which is situated in a prominent position on top of a hill close to the cliff edge. The barrow has a mound 17 metres in diameter and approximately 0.6 metres high. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch from which material to construct the mound was derived. Over the years this has become infilled but will survive as a buried feature 2 metres wide. The mound has been dug into and damaged probably by wartime activities leaving it uneven and misshapen with a circular area of concrete on the top.

The site of this round barrow was identified as earthworks on lidar taken in 2009 <8>. It was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1901, Object Name Book, Ordnance Survey, 6 (Monograph). SWX1263.

<1.1> Creech, A W, 1901, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: A W Creech (Agent to A Pitt-Rivers) Sturminster Newton 1901 (Verbal communication). SWX1262.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

BIND BARROW (TUMULUS) [OE]

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 60 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 23-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> DCMS, 1998, Scheduled Monument Notification 1998, 29/04/1998 (Scheduling record). SWX1137.

<7> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement (Monograph). SWX1703.

<8> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449841 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 18 2022 3:02PM