Monument record MDO7108 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, south east of Furze Coppice, Bere Regis

B has a diameter of 14.0 metres and a height of 1.7 metres and has no surrounding ditch. Like A it has been mutilated by the passage of vehicles in an East-West direction. A heather covered bowl barrow. <2>

'B' (79) SY 8353 9444. Bowl barrow, 61 ft diameter and 3 1/2ft high, damaged by tanks. <3>

'B' SY 8353 9443. diameter 12.0m, height 1.4m. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

B- A large bowl barrow; no details given. <5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery to the south east of Furze Coppice, Bere Regis. The barrow is formed of a sub-circular mound measuring 13 m in diameter. {3} It is scheduled together with a second barrow located approximately 72 m to the north west (see linked record). This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(A- SY 8346 9448; B- SY 8353 9444) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15/09/1952 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> 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.

‘(79) Bowl (SY 89 SW; 83539444) on narrow col above 300 ft. Diam. 61 ft., ht. 3½ ft. Damaged by tanks.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12/02/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement (Monograph). SWX1703.

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456257 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2024 5:02PM