Monument record MDO7005 - Rewbarrow, Bronze Age bowl barrow, west of Kite Hill Plantation, Affpuddle

A bowl barrow recorded as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1945.

Shown as Rewbarrow on 1 inch Ordnance Survey map of 1811. <1>

(SY 81829455) A rather high round mound - probably a round barrow. <2>

Surveyed at SY 81839455 is a probable bowl barrow represented by a bush-covered, circular mound, 10.0m diameter and 1.5m high with a drepssion in the top. <3>

SY 81839453. Bowl barrow, 13 paces diameter and 5 1/2ft high shown on OS 1" 1811 as Rewbarrow. <4>

Visited. Now only a site but identifiable as a slight swell on which the turf grows poorly. (4)

SY 81849456. Rewbarrow, (shown on OS 1811), a bowl(?) barrow about 30ft diameter and 5ft high. <5>

SY 81839455: now only 0.2m. In height and almost ploughed out. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <8>

Visited by MPPA in 2001, there are no visible remains of a barrow here. Not recommended for scheduling. Ground photo with archive report. <11>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1945 to the west of Kite Hill Plantation. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 11 m in diameter. <9> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1811, Ordnance Survey 1-inch map first series (Map). SDO10343.

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

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<5> GSL, Various, Field Investigators Comments GSL, F2 GSL 25-SEP-61 (Unpublished document). SDO19107.

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

(SY 81849456) Tumulus (NR)

<7> 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. … (62) Rewbarrow (1811), bowl (?) (SY 89 SW; 81849456). On ground falling S. to 200 ft. contour. Diam. about 30 ft., ht. 5 ft.'

<8> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 12-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<9> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA187 3020-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13631.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<11> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, 2001 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456173 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 20 2023 7:54PM