Monument record MDO7101 - Bronze Age round barrow, Bere Heath, Bere Regis

A bronze age round barrow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery of Bere Heath. It is approximately 11.5m in diameter with a surrounding outer ditch approximately 1m wide. It is one of two potential round barrows located in close proximity to one another (see also MDO7102).

This barrow has a dimeter of 12.0 metres and a height in the southern quadrant of 2.0 metres with no trace of a surrounding ditch. It is much pitted by tree planting trenches. A tree and heather covered Bowl Barrow. <2>

A large bowl barrow, no other details given. <3>

SY 86219290. Bowl barrow, about 30ft. diameter and 3ft. high thickly overgrown. <4>

A conifer covered bowl barrow, with traces of a ditch 1.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep, visible on the north and south sides. See ground photograph. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A bronze age round barrow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery of Bere Heath <6-7>. It is approximately 11.5m in diameter with a surrounding outer ditch approximately 1m wide. It is one of two potential round barrows located in close proximity to one another (see also MDO7102). This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 86219290) Tumulus

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 10-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<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.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 30-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

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

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/096 RCHME Inventory: Dorset III (Central) (Unpublished document). SDO17384.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456132 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 3:25PM