Monument record MDO7115 - Bowl barrow, one of the Broomhill Group, Bere Regis

One of a group of four bowl barrows in an irregular line along a ridge. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 53 feet in diameter with a mound about 7½ feet high. The barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

'C' - SY 8634 9509. Bowl barrow, 13 paces diameter and 6ft high. <2>

'C' - Fir and fern-covered bowl barrow, 17.0m diameter and 2.1m high with no trace of ditch or mutilation. <3>

The Broomhill Group of four, tree covered and damaged bowl barrows in an irregular line on the crest of a spur.
'C' - (86) SY 86389509. 53ft diameter and 7 1/2ft high. <4>

Four bowl barrows mutilated and spread by re-afforestation. 'C' on the track edge, measures 20.0 by 21.8 metres and 1.8 metres high. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. <8>

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

(Centred SY 863950) Tumuli (NR) (three shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 12/09/1952 (Unpublished document).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.

‘BROOMHILL GROUP (SY 89 NE), four bowls in an irregular line on the crest of a spur jutting E. from Woodbury Hill above 300 ft. All tree-covered and damaged. … (86) (86389509) 35 yds. E. of (85). Diam. 53 ft., ht. 7½ ft.’

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 15/05/1981 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 455783 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Sep 28 2023 6:06PM