Monument record MDO7106 - Bowl barrow, one of the Black Hill Group, Bere Regis

In addition there is a bowl barrow 'd' sited at SY 83719411. <1>

'd' Surveyed at SY 88719411 has a diameter of 11.0m and a height of 1.0m and has no surrounding dich. It bears no traces of mutilation. A bowl barrow. <2>

'D' - (77) - SY 83719411. Bowl (?) barrow, about 45ft diameter and 3ft high in Bere Regis parish. <4>

"SY 837942. Group of six round barrows on Black Hill. Scheduled". <5>

Four bowl barrows on heathland generally as described by authority 5. 'D' SY 83729411. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of the Black Hill Group, is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery <8>. The barrow is formed of a sub-circular mound measuring 12 m in diameter. It is scheduled together with five other barrows on Black Hill (see linked records) of which five could be seen on lidar imagery. This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F3 JR 15-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

Centred SY 836940) Tumuli (NR) (four shown)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 454 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘BLACK HILL GROUP (SY 89 SW). Six bowls, three forming a short straight line on S.W. spur from ridge along which runs parish boundary marked by large standing sarsen stone (see Stones, Turners Puddle (25)). All are above the 300 ft. contour, and all but two, in Bere Regis, are damaged. … Bere Regis: … (77) Bowl (?) (83719411) 85 yds. N.N.E. of (22). Diam. about 45 ft., ht. 3 ft.’

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 60 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F4 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 456221 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2024 4:25PM