Monument record MDO5954 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bokerley Down Group, Pentridge

One of a group of four bowl barrows and three long barrows near the end of the Dorset Cursus. In 1975 this monument was reported as being a mound around 1 foot high and it was calculated that its original diameter would have been around 50 feet.

A bowl barrow, one of a pair located south of the probable Neolithic bank barrow SU 01 NW 40. Listed by RCHME as Pentridge 30 and by Grinsell as Pentridge 3, it was described in 1969 by an Ordnance Survey field investigator as a bowl barrow circa 14 metres in diameter and 0.30 metres high. <1-3>

NB this barrow was originally described as part of SU 01 NW 41. That record should be consulted for some additional information and sources. <4>

Gill, M, 2023, Geophysics Survey of Three Long Barrows and a Long Mortuary Enclosure near the Dorset Cursus (Unpublished document). SDO19805.

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

<2> Aldsworth, F G, Various, Field Investigators Comments FGA, F1 FGA 02-MAY-1969 (Unpublished document). SWX1161.

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

‘Bokerley Down Group consists of four round barrows together with the three long barrows (20-22) which extend S.S.E. from the end of the Cursus. All but (32) have been much reduced by heavy ploughing. … (30) Bowl (04151892); former diam. 50 ft., ht. 1 ft.’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313459 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 3 2023 2:13PM