Monument record MDO7003 - Bronze Age Bowl Barrow in Throop Clump, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow reported as being around 62 feet in diameter with a mound about 8½ feet high, though damaged. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery.

A large bowl barrow, no details given. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 19.0 metres and a height of 2.0 metres and has no surrounding ditch. It has not been mutilated except for a small military slit trench at its base in the North East quadrant. Heather and gorse covered Bowl Barrow. <3>

SY 8249 9241. Bowl barrow, 62ft diameter and 8 1/2ft high but damaged, situated in Throap Clump. <5>

SY 8249 9240, diameter 22.0m, height 2.2m, badly mutilated by digging with a pit near the centre 4.0m in diameter. No visible ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

The Bronze Age barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery adjacent to Throop Clump. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 20 m in diameter. <8> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 8249 9240) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<5> 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.

'All but three of the twenty barrows in the parish lie on the heathlands rising to the N. of the River Frome. Most have been damaged by recent military activity. Two are probably bells, one within group (A). Barrows (61-3) lie on chalk N. of the River Piddle. … (60) Bowl (SY 89 SW; 82499241) in Throop Clump just above 200 ft. contour and on gradual S. slope. Diam. 62 ft., ht. 8½ ft. Damaged.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456271 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 24 2023 2:57PM