Monument record MDO7112 - Bowl barrow, Bere Regis

A circular soil mark around 50 feet in diameter seen on a vertical air photograph taken in the late 1940s. Situated on the summit of a low ridge and interpreted as a Bronze Age round barrow surviving as a slight mound. In 1970 this monument was reported as being in arable.

Bowl barrow, 15 paces diameter and 1ft high north east of Woodbury. <2>

Bowl barrow, now a vague mound much spread and ploughed with approximate dimenions of 16.0m diameter and 0.5m high. No trace of ditch. <3>

SY 85949507 Barrow (?) visible as circular soil-mark at lease 50ft across on air photograph). <4>

No remains of a barrow can be seen the field, which is currently under pasture. Published barrow deleted on 1:2500 M.S.D. <5>

A bowl barrow with a mound composed of earth, flint and chalk, with maximum dimensions of 15 metres in diameter and up to 0.35 metres in height. The mound is surronded by a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature circa 1.5 metres wide. There is a quarry to the east of the barrow and spoil generated by this has been used to level the surrounding area, thereby obscuring the profile of the barrow. <7>

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

(SY 85949507) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 1952-09-12 (Unpublished document).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.

‘(83) Barrow (?) (SY 89 NE; 85949507) in arable on summit of low wide ridge above 300 ft. Circular soil-mark at least 50 ft. across on vertical air photograph CPE/UK 1934: 4125.’

<4.1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4125 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19639.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 1981-05-15 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 455778 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:30PM