Monument record MDO7131 - Bowl barrow, Bere Regis

One of a line of three barrows on the centre of a ridge. In 1970 this monument was described as around 87 feet in diameter with a mound 1 foot high, spread and reduced by ploughing. The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1989 and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

'A'. A large bowl barrow. (No dimensions given). <2>

'A' - A bowl barrow 35.5 metres diameter, 1.5 metres high. Under root crop and with no indication of a ditch or excavation. <3>

'A' (102) - SY 83399668. Bowl (?) barrow, 87ft diameter and 1ft high, spread and almost destroyed by ploughing. Grinsell lists this barrow as 30 paces diameter and 3ft high in 1957. <4-5>

"SY 834967. Round barrow north of Millum Head. Scheduled". <6>

'A'. SY 83409664. A close inspection was not possible because of crops, but from a distance the barrow appears to be as described (4). Revised from R.C.H.M. measurements at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1989 <8> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

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

'A' (SY 83399668) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 12-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 89 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 437 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Three barrows (SY 89 NW) lie in a line ½ mile S.W. of Bere Down Buildings on the centre of a ridge above 200 ft. All are spread and almost destroyed by ploughing. . . . (102) Bowl (?) (83399668). Diam. 87 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 60 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<8> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1989, NMR 4527/30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19879.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455955 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2024 3:41PM