Monument record MDO5984 - Bowl barrow in Baker's Hanging, St Leonards and St Ives

Bronze Age bowl barrow on Ashley Heath. The barrow mound is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Bowl barrow 18 paces in diameter and 5ft. high. <2>

Bowl barrow 17.0m. in diameter and 1.6m. high, planted with young conifers and with no trace of a surrounding ditch. <3>

Surveyed at 1/2500. <4>

No change, as described in 1954. Published 1/2500 correct. <5>

Bronze Age bowl barrow on Ashley Heath. The barrow mound (18m across) is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery <6> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Corr. 6", N. Cook 9.4.40 (Map). SDO19708.

[SU 12800603] Tumulus

<2> Hampshire Field Club, 1940, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14, 14 (Serial). SDO16930.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 08-MAR-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> August, Drucilla, Field Investigator's Comments DA, F2 DA 13-MAY-1957 (Unpublished document). SDO19707.

<5> Aldsworth, F G, Various, Field Investigators Comments FGA, F3 FGA 20-OCT-69 (Unpublished document). SWX1161.

<6> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 216921 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2023 8:12PM