Monument record MDO6156 - Bowl Barrow east of Stag Gate, Sturminster Marshall

Bronze Age bowl barrow described as being of irregular shape, with a maximum diameter of about 20 metres and a denuded mound some 0.6 metres high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

(SY 92609938; SY 92659938) Two mounds marked as tumuli on MOW maps in Dorset County Museum. <1>

'B' (SY 92629938) Bowl barrow diameter 20.0m., 0.6m. high, with no sign of a berm or ditch, and of irregular shape.
Both barrows are grass covered. The beaker illustrated by ABERCROMBY (SY 99 NW 4) may have been found in one of these barrows. <2>

<1> Anon, Undated, Pte 6 inch Dorset County Museum (Anon undated) (Map). SWX2203.

Note by A L F Rivet (undated) refers.

<1.1> DCM, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 Dorset Co Museum (Anon udt.) (Map). SWX2335.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-MAR-59 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

'Bowl barrow diameter 20.0m and 0.6m high, with no sign of a berm or ditch, and of irregular shape. Grass-covered. The beaker illustrated by Abercromby (SY 99 NW 4) may have been found in one of these barrows.'

<2.1> Abercromby, J, 1912, A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland (Monograph). SDO10121.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 50 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, DBS (Index). SDO134.

'Visible as a low rise with an uneven surface in a field which appears n ot to have been ploughed. Road immediately to N. Earthworks of excavations and channels to S.'

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457249 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 7 2024 2:33PM