Monument record MDO593 - Bowl barrow, Cogden Farm, Burton Bradstock

A bowl barrow on an east facing slope 550 metres north west of Cogden Farm. The barrow has a flat-topped mound up to 15 metres in diameter and up to 1.5 metres high. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch from which material used in its construction was derived. This has become infilled over the years but will survive as a buried feature 2 metres wide. Scheduled. The site is visible on aerial photographs and LiDAR and has been digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project

A mound, probably a bowl barrow 1/2 mile ENE of Bind Barrow, is of oval form 50ft by 47ft across and about 5ft high. (1)

(SY 50138913) A grass covered probable bowl barrow with no visible ditch. Diameter 17.0m with a height of 1.0m on the S. side, and 1.8m on the N side. (2)

SY 50138913. Burton Bradstock 3. Included in list of bowl barrows, with reference to OS record. (4)

SY 501891. Round barrow 600 yds NW of Cogden Farm. Scheduled. (5)

The site is visible on aerial photographs and LiDAR <7> and has been digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 60 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 22-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 50138913) Mound (NR)

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 35 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<5> 1978, List of ancient monuments in England: Southern England, 61 (Monograph). SWX1558.

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

<7> 21-APR-2006, LiDAR D0060470 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11494.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450505 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 20 2023 2:47PM