Monument record MDO7105 - Hundred Barrow, south of Rye Hill Farm, Bere Regis

Bronze Age barrow reused as the meeting place of the Domesday Hundreds of Bere. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery to the south of Rye Hill Farm, Bere Regis.

Large bowl barrow, no details. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 18.0 metres and a height of 2.6 metres. It has no surrounding ditch and is covered with thorn bushes, brambles and ferns. No visible trace of mutilation. A bowl barrow. <3>

SY 8446 9378. Hundred Barrow, bowl barrow, 58ft diameter and 7ft high damaged by rabbits on summit of small spur. <4>

Hundred Barrow was the meeting place of the old Domesday hundred of Bere. In the 12th century, a smaller hundred named after the barrow, i.e. Barrow (or Hundreds Barrow) was created out of the original Bere hundred. <5>

SY 8446 9377. Hundred Barrow. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Bronze Age barrow reused as the meeting place of the Domesday Hundreds of Bere. It is situated on a spur overlooking the Bere Valley to the east. The monument consists of a mound 16 m in diameter and 2.2 m high. It is surround by an infilled ditch 1.5 m wide.

The Bronze Age barrow described above is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery to the south of Rye Hill Farm, Bere Regis. The barrow is formed of a sub-oval mound measuring 18 m by 15 m. <8> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 8446 9377) Hundred Barrow (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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 15-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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, 435 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(76) Hundred Barrow, bowl (SY 89 SW; 84469378). On summit of small spur above 200 ft. Diam. 58 ft., ht. 7 ft. Damaged by rabbits. Perhaps site from which Barrow Hundred named (Fägersten, 166).’

<5> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1: the Isle of Purbeck, the hundreds of Rowbarrow, Hasler, Winfrith, Culliford Tree, Bere Regis, Barrow, Puddletown St George, 278, 288 (Monograph). SWX972.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456247 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:13PM