Monument record MDO7033 - Bronze Age round barrow, Worgret Heath, Arne

A bowl barrow located on Worgret Heath, Arne. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 40 feet in diameter with a mound about 4½ feet high encircled by a shallow ditch. A circular mound surrounded by an outer ditch is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery. It is considered likely to be the remains of one of the round barrows described above. It is one of a group of dispersed barrows which make up the Worgret Heath group.

'B' Dimensions: Diameter 17 yards. Height 5ft. Flat topped shallow surrounding ditch. (2)

Two barrows lettered A & B, both heather covered. 'B' Diameter 14.0 metres. Height 1.8 metres. A surrounding ditch has an average depth of 0.3m. and width of 1.3 metres. This has been mutilated on the W side by a land drainage trench. No berm visible. A bowl barrow. <4>

'B' SY 90128733. Ditched bowl barrow, diameter 40 ft height 4 1/2 feet. Ditch 6 1/2 feet wide and up to 9 inches deep. <6>

A circular mound, approximately 14.1m in diameter and surrounded by a 1.5m wide ditch, is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery of Worgret Heath, Arne <7>. It is considered likely to be the remains of one of the round barrows described above. It is one of a group of dispersed barrows which make up the Worgret Heath group. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 6in. Prov. Ed, ('A'-SY 90128737; 'B' - SY 90118733) Tumuli (NR) (two shown) (Map). SWX2257.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 86 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> 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.

‘(33) Ditched bowl (90128733) 150 yds. N. of (32). Diam. 40 ft., ht. 4½ ft., with ditch 6½ ft. wide and up to 9 ins. deep.’

<5> Leech, R H, Field investigator's comments RHL, F2 Leech RH, 06-Aug-1990 (Unpublished document). SDO20488.

<6> DCMS, 1999, Scheduled Monument Notification 1999, 04-FEB-1999 (Scheduling record). SDO17351.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456648 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 20 2024 6:11PM