Monument record MDO6019 - Bowl barrow, one of the Badbury Rings Group, Shapwick

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of several near Badbury Rings. In 1975 the RCHME recorded this monument as being around 25 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. The barrow is visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and was digitially plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Listed as a bowl barrow, 25ft diameter and 1 foot high, at ST 96270328. <1> <3>

A low grass-covered mound, 0.7m high and 9.0m diameter with unsurveyable traces of a surrounding ditch is visible at ST 96290328. The mound has the appearance of a very small bowl barrow but whether of Roman or earlier date is uncertain. Shown on the plan accompanying 'Wessex from the Air' but not described. <2>

A Bronze Age round barrow, surviving as an earthwork is visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <5-6> and was digitially plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M. The mound is 7 metres across.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 64 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘At least twenty-six barrows are known, but many have been flattened by ploughing and now appear only as soil-marks or crop-marks on air photographs. … (54) Bowl (96270328), 110 yds. N.E. of (53); diam. 25 ft., ht. 1 ft.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 26-MAR-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Crawford, O G S and Keiller, A, 1928, Wessex from the Air, plan 58 (Monograph). SDO12591.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 130 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 52 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as a low rise 7m dia. And 0.6m high. There are slight traces of the burial mound’s quarry ditch. One of a group of twelve round barrows.

<5> Alexander Kieller Collection, 14-JUL-1924, ALK 7415/257 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18098.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209531 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2023 11:50AM