Monument record MDO6987 - Bowl Barrow in Pallington Heath Group, Affpuddle

Bowl Barrow at Pallington Clump, diameter 70 feet, height 7 ½ feet. Surrounded by a tree clump circle; still prominent with pines. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010.

SY 7872 9219. A tree and fern covered bowl barrow surrounded by a large tree-ring, constructed around the outer edge of the barrow ditch. The mound has been extensively pitted by military slit trenches and further mutilations. (see illustration card for section across barrow). <2>

Surrounded by tree clump circle. <3>

Bowl Barrow at Pallington Clump, diameter 70 feet, height 7 ½ feet. Surrounded by a tree clump circle; still prominent with pines. <4>

(44)-SY 78739219. Bowl barrow, 70ft diameter and 71/2ft high at Pallington Clump is surrounded by a tree-clump circle. Grinsell refers to this barrow as 24 paces diameter x 61/2ft high.

'A' SY 78729219. Bowl barrow, diameter 22.0m., height 1.7m. With a ditch 3.0m. Wide and 0.5m. Deep. It has a flat top 10.0m. In diameter. Surrounded by a tree ring bank. 'A' Re-surveyed … at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

Planted in 1758. <6>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010. It is sub-circular in shape and measures 20 m in diameter. The barrow has an external bank measuring up to 6 m in width. <7> This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 7872 9219) Pallington Clump (NAT) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 434 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘All but three of the twenty barrows in the parish lie on the heathlands rising to the N. of the River Frome. Most have been damaged by recent military activity. Two are probably bells, one within group (A). Barrows (61–3) lie on chalk N. of the River Piddle.
(A) Pallington Heath Group (SY 79 SE). Eight barrows, including one probable bell, immediately S. of Piddle-Frome watershed, near S. edge of broad flat plateau just above 300 ft. contour.
(44) Bowl (78739219) at Pallington Clump. Diam. 70 ft., ht. 7½ ft. Surrounded by tree-clump circle; still prominent with pines.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 32 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<6.1> Brocklebank, Joan, 1968, Affpuddle in the County of Dorset. A Study Compiled from Written Sources, 61 (Monograph). SDO18085.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454881 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 25 2024 9:47AM