Monument record MDO6421 - Bowl barrow on Woodlands Common, Woodlands

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on a low hill north east of Martin's Farm Bungalow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 43 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high. The barrow is visible as a low earthwork on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A ditchless poorly shaped bowl barrow, mutilated in the east by a slight trench. Published survey (25" 1900) revised. <1>

A marginal note in pencil by L J Keen gives a grid reference of 06540889 for this monument. A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on a low hill. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 43 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high. The barrow is visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <4-5> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-JUL-62 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 06530889) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 115 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Monuments (24-65), Round Barrows. Forty-two are known, nearly all in the N.W. of the parish and in the vicinity of Knowlton Circles. … (25) Bowl (06560889), on he E. side of Woodlands Common, lies on a low hill of Bagshot Sands; diam. 43 ft., ht. 3½ ft.'

<4> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<5> National Monuments Record, 18-NOV-2005, NMR 24135/35-6 (SU0608/1-2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15597.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1093539 (Index). SDO14738.

SU 00 NE 3 (1962). Index cardAntiquity Model: Revised

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212928 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2023 2:39PM