Monument record MDO6995 - Bowl Barrow in Sares Wood, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow situated on a gentle north facing slope, overlooking the Piddle Valley to the north east and the Frome Valley to the south west. The barrow has a mound composed of earth, gravel and turf, with maximum dimensions of 18 metres in diameter and 1.1 metres in height. The mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditch has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010.

Bowl Barrow in Sares Wood on gentle north slope. Diameter 43 feet, height 3½ feet, planted with firs. [1]

Covered with undergrowth. [2]
This barrow has a diameter of 16.0m and a height of 1.3m. It has no encircling ditch and bears no traces of mutilation. It is covered with ferns and coniferous trees. A bowl barrow. <3>

Noted, but no details given, apart from being listed as a bowl barrow.<4>

SY 7970 9251. Bowl barrow, 43ft diameter and 3 1/2ft high planted with firs and situated in Sares Wood on a gentle north slope. <5>

SY 79709251. No change: good condition. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010 <7>. It is sub-circular in shape and measures 15 m in diameter. The 1st ed OS map <1> shows that it appears to have been used as a focus for tracks within Sares Wood. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 7970 9251) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> 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.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454891 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2024 4:41PM