Monument record MDO6641 - Bowl barrow on East Hill, Weymouth

A bowl barrow, one of East Hill group of barrows. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 454360 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> 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.14) EAST HILL GROUP (SY 78 SW). Fourteen, possibly sixteen, barrows in two compact clusters, the E. one containing a slightly irregular line of seven aligned on Bincombe (69) in R.12. Now mostly ploughed, but some still visible on skyline from Broadmayne bank barrow (19). Two barrows (LVG 31a and LVG Osmington 2), one possibly a disc, are untraceable. …
Weymouth: … (429) Bowl (71248454) 33 yds. E. of (427). Diam. 30 ft., ht. 1 ft. '

<2> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 633 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace of this barrow - presumably ploughed out. Surrounding field regularly cultivated. 7/7/E

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 1:20PM