Monument record MDO6993 - Bowl Barrow in Pallington Heath Group, Affpuddle

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as 54 feet in diameter with a mound 4¾ feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010, measuring 15.0m in diameter.

'B' - Ditched bowl barrow, mutilated, 15.0m diameter and 1.4m high covered with fern and heather. The surrounding ditch is faint and averages 2.0m wide and 0.1m deep. (Rigg 1952)

Bowl barrow, 54ft diameter and 4 ¾ ft high. Grinsell refers to this barrow as having a ditch and hollow-centre and dimensions of 18 paces diameter x 6ft high. (Grinsell 1959; RCHME 1970)

'B' SY 79079212, diameter 15.0m., height 1.5m., with faint and unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Re-surveyed at 1.2500 on MSD. (Barton 1981)

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010. It is sub-circular in shape and measures 15 m in diameter (Environment Agency 2010. The barrow is scheduled with another barrow, located immediately to the north (see MDO6994). 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Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 454886 (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Barton, J G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document).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Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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.

Tumuli (NR)

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.

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

Record last edited

Oct 1 2026 1:36PM