Monument record MDO6992 - Bowl Barrow in Pallington Heath Group, Affpuddle

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 54 feet in diameter with a mound about 4½ feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010, measuring 14.0m in diameter.

Three heather covered round barrows near Pallington Clump have all been mutilated by vehicle tracks. The diameters of the barrow are all measured from inside ditch to inside ditch and the heights from the top of the mound to the base of the ditch. … 'C' - SY 78969222. Ditched bowl barrow, 17.0m diameter and 1.5m high with a surrounding ditch averaging 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep. (Rigg 1952)

'C' - SY 78969221. Bowl barrow, 19 paces diameter and 3½ ft high. (Grinsell 1959)

'C' - (49) - SY 78969222. Bowl barrow, 54ft diameter and 4½ ft high. (RCHME 1970)

'C' SY 78959222, as described above; no visible ditch. A, B and C re-surveyed, and D surveyed, at 1:2500 on MSD. (Barton 1981)

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010 (Environment Agency 2010). It is sub-circular in shape and measures 14 m in diameter. The barrow is scheduled with another barrow, located immediately to the west (see MDO6991), but no trace of this feature could be identified during the survey. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 454876 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Barton, J G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 788922) Tumuli (NR) (three shown)

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

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.

‘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. … (49) Bowl (78969222) 50 yds. E.S.E. of (48). Diam. 54 ft., ht. 4½ ft.’

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

Record last edited

Oct 1 2026 1:32PM