Monument record MDO6645 - Bowl barrow on Bayard Hill, one of the East Hill Group, Weymouth

Bowl barrow, severely damaged, and slightly truncated by a track. Diameter 13.5m. by 10.0m., height 2.4m. No visible ditch. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Bowl barrow, severely damaged, and slightly truncated by a track. Diameter 13.5m. by 10.0m., height 2.4m. No visible ditch. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <1>. 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. 'B' Bowl. (?) (SY 68 NE : 66488537) 85 yards east-north-east of 'A'. Oval, 51 ft. by 35 ft., Ht. 9 ft. Damaged. <2> <4>

B: SY 66488536. Bowl barrow, severely damaged, and slightly truncated by a track. Diameter 13.5m. by 10.0m., height 2.4m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1061-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11826.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 141 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 66418534, SY 66488536) Tumuli (NR)

<4> 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. … Two barrows on Bayard Hill, a locally prominent rise. … (433) Bowl (?) (SY 68 NE; 66488537) 85 yds. E.N.E. of (432). Oval, 51 ft., by 35 ft., ht. 9 ft. Damaged. '

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 410 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 13.5m x 10.0m, ht. 2.4m. Unploughed, damaged on West. Field in ley pasture. On the East side a wire fence crosses its perimeter. 1/4/D

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

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

Record last edited

Jun 24 2022 2:27PM