Monument record MDO6994 - Bowl Barrow in Pallington Heath Group, Affpuddle

Bowl Barrow diameter 37 feet, height 4½ feet. Excavated in centre and across east-west axis. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010.

'A' - Ditched bowl barrow, 13.0m diameter and 1.5m high covered with fern and heather and a depression on the top. The surrounding ditch averages 2.5m wide and 0.3m deep in the northern half; the ditch is faint in the south and south-east quadrants. <2>

'A' - (51) - SY 79109214. Ditched bowl, 37ft diameter and 4½ ft high, excavated in centre and across east-west axis. <3> <4>

'A' SY 79099214, diameter 12.5m. Height 2.2m. The ditch has been destroyed by forestry work. 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 12 m in diameter. <7> 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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

Oct 25 2024 10:02AM