Monument record MDO5949 - Bowl barrow, Pentridge Down, Pentridge

Bronze Age round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow on Pentridge Down, located on the northwest slope of a spur among the remains of a later prehistoric or Roman field system. It was described by RCHME as a mound 50 feet in diameter and 5 feet high.

(SU 03761736) Tumulus (NR). <2>

Round Barrow: (25) Bowl (03761736), on Pentridge Down, lies on the N.W. slope of a spur among 'Celtic' fields (Group (85), p. 118) (SU 01 NW 52) and actually within one of them (Plate 84). It is not clear from surface evidence if the barrow was built before or after the field had been laid out; the latter seems more likely. Diam. 50 ft., ht. 5 ft. <1, 3, 4>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 123 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 57 (Monograph). SDO129.

<4> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke (Monograph). SWX800.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213552 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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