Monument record MDO6999 - Bronze Age Bowl Barrow on Affpuddle Heath, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow with surrounding ditch. In 1970 this monument was reported as being 45 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery from 2010, measuring 16.0m in diameter.

b). A fine bowl barrow, large and ditched. (Grinsell 1935-54)

'b' has a diameter of 17.5m and a height of 1.9m and has a ditch in the Western half only. Average width of the ditch is 2.5m and its average depth 0.3m. The barrow has been mutilated by the passage over it of vehicles in a south East North West direction. Heather covered bowl barrow. There were no surface finds in the vicinity of either of these barrows. (Rigg 1952)

'B' - (56) SY 80679227. Ditched bowl barrow, 45ft diameter and 5ft high. (RCHME 1970)

SY 801923 - SY 815924. Round barrows on Affpuddle and Bryants Puddle Heath. (DoE 1978)

'B' SY 80679227. Bowl barrow, diameter 22.0m. Overall, height 1.9m., with a ditch 2.0m. Wide and 0.3m. Deep visible on the north-west quadrant only. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on. (Barton 1981)

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery on Affpuddle Heath. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 16 m in diameter (Environment Agency 2010). A second barrow is located 145 m to the north west (see MDO6998) and may be associated with it. This feature was digitally plotted as part of 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Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 456193 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Barton, J G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 24-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

TUMULI [OE] [TWO]

Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

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.

Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

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

Record last edited

Oct 1 2026 3:39PM