Monument record MDO7098 - Bowl barrow, Bere Regis

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

This barrow has a diameter of 17.0 metres and a height of 1.5 metres with no trace of a surrounding ditch. It has been much mutilated by the crossing of tanks in a north-south direction. A heather covered bowl barrow. <3>

SY 8432 9102. Bowl barrow, 58ft diameter and 51/2ft high, damaged by tanks, situated on Gallows Hill. <4>

SY 8432 9102: No change. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery <7> on Gallows Hill, Bere Regis. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 16 m in diameter. This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 8432 9101) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 10-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 436 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(69) Bowl (SY 89 SW; 84329102) on flat summit of Gallows Hill above 200 ft. Diam. 58 ft., ht. 5½ ft. Damaged by tanks.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456313 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 1 2024 1:38PM