Monument record MDO6996 - Bowl Barrow on Affpuddle Heath, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow situated on a ridge overlooking the Frome Valley to the south. The barrow has a mound composed of earth, sand and turf, with maximum dimensions of 14 metres in diameter and around 0.65 metres in height.

A bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath. No details given, but sited at SY 79979227. <2>

Surveyed at SY 79969226 this barrow has a diameter of 12.0m and a height of 1.1m. It has no ditch. A small part of the barrow has been removed in the north by the passage of vehicles in an east-west direction. There were no surface finds. A heather covered bowl barrow. <3>

SY 79979227. Bowl barrow, diameter 12 paces, height 1ft. <4>

SY 79969225. Bowl (?) barrow, diameter 30 feet, height 1½ feet, half destroyed. Lies on the edge of a plateau. <5>

SY 79959225. Bowl barrow as described; there seems no reason to doubt its type. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

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

(SY 79969225) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 23-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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

'(53) Bowl (?) (SY 79 SE; 79969226) on edge of plateau just above 300 ft. contour. Diam. 30 ft., ht. 1½ ft. N. half destroyed.'

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 23-JAN-81 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454896 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:53PM