Monument record MDO6633 - Bowl barrow, one of the North Down Barn Group, Weymouth

Four round barrows at Northdown Barn consist of: ('C) Bowl (70968475) 120 yds. E.S.E of ('B') Diam 57 ft., ht, 10 ft. Disturbed on top. <3>

'C' - SY 70968475. Gorse-covered. Diameter 18.0m., height 2.5m. No visible ditch. 'A', 'B' and 'C' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Bronze Age barrow, visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs <7-9>. One of a group of barrows at Northdown Barn. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 142 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 457 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(R.13) NORTHDOWN BARN GROUP (SY 78 SW). Five bowls on the S. side of the Ridgeway along the narrow col between West Hill and East Hill Groups. A mound (LVG 48) at 70728481 is probably spoil from an adjacent pit. The barrows are in Weymouth and Poxwell. … (421) Bowl (70968475) 120 yds. E.S.E. of (420). Diam. 57 ft., ht. 10 ft. Disturbed on top. '

<3.1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866) (Monograph). SWX8166.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-JUN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 624 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 2.5m. Grass and gorse covered in a field of kale. Two badger setts were visible on the W side of the mound. Also on this side the perimeter had been damaged by basal ploughing which had created a false berm. Visible as a promiment rise. 1/2/C

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 12-APR-1983, NMR SY 7084/1-4 (2134/0228-31) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11752.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6439-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11751.

<9> 15-FEB-2005, NMR SY 7084/11 (23814/02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11750.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454363 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:46PM