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

'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. <2>

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. <3> <4>

'B' SY 79079212, diameter 15.0m., height 1.5m., with faint and unsurveyable traces of a ditch.
Re-surveyed at 1.2500 on MSD. <5>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010. It is sub-circular in shape and measures 15 m in diameter. <7> 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.

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

Tumuli (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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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.

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document).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

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454886 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 25 2024 1:24PM