Monument record MDO6644 - Bowl barrow on Bayard Hill, one of the East Hill Group, Weymouth

Bowl barrow in arable but not ploughed over. Diameter 18.0m., height 3.2m. No visible ditch. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Two barrows on Bayard Hill, a locally prominent rise. 'A'. Bowl (SY 68 NE : 66418535). Diam. 60 ft., ht 8 ft. Top flattened and base damaged by ploughing. <2-3>

A: SY 66418535. Bowl barrow in arable but not ploughed over. Diameter 18.0m., height 3.2m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Bowl barrow in arable but not ploughed over. Diameter 18.0m., height 3.2m. No visible ditch. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <6>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 66418534, SY 66488536) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 141 (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.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.
One of Osmington (31–3) probably contained a primary inurned cremation in a cist and a fragmentary inhumation near the top.
Weymouth: … Two barrows on Bayard Hill, a locally prominent rise. (432) Bowl (SY 68 NE; 66418535). Diam. 60 ft., ht. 8 ft. Top flattened and base damaged by ploughing. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 409 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 3.2m. Damaged by basal ploughing. Situated in a field of ley pasture and covered in established grass. Two newly built dutch barns have been built immediately N of the barrow. 1/3/C

<6> 07-AUG-1995, NMR SY6686/7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11845.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452039 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 24 2022 2:19PM