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

Bowl Barrow diameter 51 feet, height 3 feet, much damaged. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery. 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. <2>

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. <3>

A- (57) SY 8139 9246. Bowl barrow, about 51ft diameter and 3 ft high, much damaged. <6>

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

A - SY 8139 9245. No change. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <8>

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. <10> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 8139 9245) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 24-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

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

<6> 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.

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456183 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:38PM