Monument record MDO7000 - Bronze Age Bowl Barrow on Affpuddle Heath, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow reported in 1970 as being 51 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery from 2010, measuring 17m in diameter. One of two bowl barrows which form part of a round barrow cemetery on Affpuddle Heath and Bryants Puddle Heath. The barrows have mounds of earth, sand and turf and are surrounded by infilled quarry ditches which survive as buried features.

A: SY 8139 9245. A large bowl barrow. No details given. (Grinsell 1935-1954)

A. This barrow has a diameter of 14.0 metres and a height of 1.3 metres. It has no ditch and has been mutilated by vehicles tracks from east to west over the top of the mound. Heather covered bowl barrow. … There were no surface finds in the vicinity of these two bowl barrows. (Rigg 1952)

A- (57) SY 8139 9246. Bowl barrow, about 51ft diameter and 3 ft high, much damaged. (RCHME 1970)

SY 801 923 - SY 815 924: Round barrows on Affpuddle and Bryants Puddle Heath. Scheduled. (see also SY 89 SW 6 & 7). (DoE 1978)

A - SY 8139 9245. No change. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (Barton 1981)

The Bronze Age barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery to the south of Cull-peppers Dish. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 17 m in diameter (Environment Agency 2010). 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Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 456183 (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Barton, J G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document).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Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 24-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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.

(SY 8139 9245) Tumulus (NR)

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(A- SY 8139 9246; B- SY 8147 9243) Tumuli (NR)

Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

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

Record last edited

Oct 1 2026 3:41PM