Monument record MDO6229 - Bowl barrow, West Parley

`B': A bowl barrow, diameter 10.0m., height 0.4m. With no visible ditch. Both barrows are heather covered, and situated in the gardens of a private house. <2>

The bowl barrow published at SZ 07929863 on the OS 25" 1959 has been destroyed and is in a levelled building plot. OS 1:2500 surveys revised. <4>

SZ 07939864. Bowl barrow, 40 feet in diameter and 2 feet high, now destroyed. <5-6>

Listed under bowl barrows. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 07929862) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-NOV-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1971 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 07929862) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-AUG-73 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 76 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(11) Bowl (07939864), 50 yds. S.E. of (10), has now been destroyed; diam. 40 ft., ht. 2 ft.'

<6> DOE, 1978, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978 (Scheduling record). SDO17448.

<7> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement (Monograph). SWX1703.

<8> DCMS, 1997, Scheduled Monument Notification 1997, 16/05/1997 (Scheduling record). SDO17426.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457824 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 20 2023 2:46PM