Monument record MDO7110 - Bowl barrow, Bere Regis

A bowl barrow, no details given. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 9.0m and a height of 0.5m and has no surrounding ditch. It is under the plough and there were no surface finds. A bowl barrow. <3>

SY 8329 9493. Bowl barrow, 33ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high, slightly below summit of ridge, south of Shitterton Wood. <4>

SY 8329 9493. almost ploughed out; diameter 12.0m height 0.2m. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

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

(SY 8329 9493) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 15-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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, 436 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(81) Bowl (SY 89 SW; 83299493) E. of and slightly below summit of ridge S. of Shitterton Wood. Diam. 33 ft., ht. 1½ ft.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 16-FEB-81 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456216 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 23 2023 3:16PM