Monument record MDO7001 - Bowl Barrow on Affpuddle Heath, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow reported in 1981 as 13.0m in diameter and 1.2m high, with a ditch on the north-east half. 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.

Another tumulus (B) a ditched bowl barrow, is noted at SY 8147 9245. (Grinsell 1935-1954)

B. Surveyed at SY 8148 9243 is a heather covered bowl barrow with a diameter of 9.0 metres and a height of 1.2 metres. It has a surrounding ditch with an average width of 1.5 metres and an average depth of 0.2 metres. A hollow in the top of the barrow has a diameter of 2.5 metres and a depth of 0.8 metres. There were no surface finds in the vicinity of these two bowl barrows. (Rigg 1952)

B- (58) SY 8149 9243. Bowl barrow, 26ft diameter and 3ft high with hollow on top (but see Grinsell and Field Investigators (Rigg 1952) description as ditched bowl). (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)

B - SY 8148 9243: Diameter 13.0m overall, height 1.2m. Ditch on north-east half 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (Barton 1981)

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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Barton, J G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document).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Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 24-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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, 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Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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) (Monograph). SWX1687.

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Oct 1 2026 3:48PM