Monument record MDO6308 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of the Drive Plantation Group, Wimborne St Giles

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. In 1975 RCHME described it as having been levelled, but formerly visible as a plough-damaged mound 45 feet in diameter and less than 1 foot high. Forms part of the Drive Plantation Group of barrows.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. RCHME described it as having been levelled, but formerly visible as a plough-damaged mound 45 feet in diameter and less than 1 foot high. Recent air photographs show as cropmarks an irregular, subcircular ring ditch surrounding a subrectangular, almost trapezoidal ditched enclosure. This site is one of a cluster of round barrows, ring ditches and other monuments scattered throughout neighbouring fields (see associated monuments). This site was previously recorded as part of SU 01 SW 20.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 146 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 101 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(60) Bowl (01391468), 110 yds. E. of (59); former dimensions: diam. 45 ft., ht. under 1 ft.'

<3> National Monuments Record, NMR 4509: 48-51, 55, 62, 65 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18681.

<4> National Monuments Record, NMR 4443: 31-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18682.

<5> National Monuments Record, NMR 15829/19-22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18678.

<6> National Monuments Record, NMR 15810/32-36 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18679.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1309306 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 10 2022 12:13PM