Monument record MDO7004 - Double Barrow, a bowl barrow in Kite Hill Plantation, Affpuddle

Grinsell recorded two barrows, but gives the same dimensions for both. {2}

? Possible Long Barrows. <2>

Two bowl barrows, both among firs and dense undergrowth, and both 8ft high. [a] SY 8208 9452; b) SY 8209 9452] <3>

Only one tumulus is surveyed and worthy of record at this site, it is situated at SY 8208 9452 and has the following measurements:- Diam. E/W 14.5m N/S 15.0m. Height 2.0m no trace of ditch, this mound is situated on steep N-S natural slope, the tumulus has weathered to the slope and measurements are accurate
only to te nearest 0.5m. To the west of this mound the natural ground contour drops steeply in a precipitous way. I consider this wholly natural feature has been recorded in error as a second tumulus, however the whole area is densely over-grown with trees and thick undergrowth, burrowing by rabbits, and a great amount of soil strip have disfigured the original outline, and without excavation it is impossible to determine the original condition of this site. Re. Auth 2. this is not a long barrow, the a/m tumulus is complete within itself and is obviously a bowl. <4>

Surveyed. There is now only a single barrow situated on a small abrupt natural spur, and there is nothing on the ground to suggest that there was ever anything more. Dimensions and description are as given in 4. <6>

SY 821945. Double Barrow, round barrow. <7>

SY 82089453. Double Barrow, a bowl barrow about 40ft diameter and about 8ft high near the west end of a spur.
No evidence of a contigous barrow. <8>

SY 82099453. No change. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <9>

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

Double Barrow (Tumuli) O.E.

<2> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<3> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<4> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 09-JAN-53 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, SS Rev GSL 25-SEP-61 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

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

<8> 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. … (61) Double Barrow, bowl (SY 89 SW; 82089453) on 300 ft. contour near W. end of spur. Diam. About 40 ft., ht. about 8 ft. No evidence of contiguous barrow.'

<9> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<10> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456163 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2024 4:52PM