Monument record MDO7034 - Ditched Bowl Barrow, one of the Worgret Heath Group, Arne

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 32 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high, crossed by a modern field boundary.

'A' Dimensions: Diameter 9 yards. Height 3ft undisturbed. <2>

Two barrows lettered A & B, both heather covered. <4>

'A' Diameter 6.5 metres; height 0.8 metres. No sign of a berm, but three trenches have been dug in what appears to be an unsurveyable ditch. No other sign of mutilation. Probably a bowl barrow. 'A' SY 90138736. Bowl barrow, possibly ditched, 38 yards NNE of 'B'. Diameter 32 feet, height 5feet. Cut by modern field boundary. <6>

Bowl, possibly ditched, barrow forming part of the Worgret Heath Group. 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. <2-4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 6in. Prov. Ed (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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-JUL-52 (Unpublished document).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, 435 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(34) Bowl, possibly ditched (90138736) 38 yds. N.N.E. of (33). Diam. 32 ft., ht. 5 ft. Cut by modern field boundary.’

<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 Leech, R H, Field investigator's comments RHL, F2 Leech RH, 06-Aug-1990 (Unpublished document).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> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456648 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 3:55PM