Monument record MDO7002 - Bowl Barrow in Starmoor Plantation, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow recorded as being around 32 feet in diameter, with a mound about 2½ feet high and encircled by a ditch. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946.

Surveyed at SY 8174 9198 is a heather covered mound with a diameter of 10.0m and a height of 1.1m. It has no surrounding ditch, and there is no trace of mutilation. Probably a bowl barrow. <1>

SY 8173 9199. Bowl barrow, 11 paces diameter and 2 1/2 ft high in Starmoor Plantation. <2>

SY 8174 9197: damaged by forestry ploughing, diameter 11.0m, height 0.7m, no trace of ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

The barrow described above is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures approximately 9 m in diameter. The surrounding ditch measures approximately 1 m in width. <6> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 24-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 86 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> 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.

'(59) Ditched bowl (SY 89 SW; 81739199) on E. knoll in Starmoor Plantation inside 200 ft. ring contour. Diam. 32 ft., ht. 2½ feet.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Royal Air Force, 20-FEB-1946, RAF 106G/UK/1179 4054-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13595.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456201 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 23 2023 3:12PM