Monument record MDO667 - Bowl barrow on Norden Hill, Cattistock

Mound, probably the remains of a barrow, has been almost entirely obliterated by ploughing. The feature is visible as a very faint sub-circular cropmark on a 1971 aerial photograph and was digitally plotted during the Upper Dorset Frome AIM project.

'B' - A bowl barrow, 18.0m diameter by 0.3m high, under crop with no trace of ditch. <2>

'B' - SY 60029931. A mound, 75 yds to the south-west of 'A' has been destroyed by gravel digging. The mound was "vague and almost gone" according to Grinsell. <3-4>

The area is now under pasture … 'B' has been ploughed out. Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

Grinsell recorded this barrow as vague and almost gone. <2>

The feature is visible as a very faint sub-circular cropmark on a 1971 aerial photograph and was digitally plotted during the Upper Dorset Frome AIM project <7>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 59959928; 'B' - SY 60029931) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 07-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 73 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(15) MOUND, probably the remains of a barrow, 1,000 yards E. of the church, has been almost entirely obliterated by ploughing. A second mound, 75 yards to the S.W., has been destroyed by gravel-digging.’

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1972 (Map). SDO10373.

(B: SY 60019931) Tumulus (NR)

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 26-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-71, RAF/39/3829/ V 0040-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16915.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453073 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 10:25AM