Monument record MDO7139 - Bowl barrow, Bere Regis

A mound situated close to a prehistoric field boundary, interpreted as a probable bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was recorded as being around 41 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high and much spread by ploughing. The site of the barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A bowl barrow with a ditch and hollow centre. The mound is 17 paces in diameter and 3ft high. <2>

A bowl barrow 16.0 metres diameter, 1.6 metres maximum height. Grass covered. <3>

SY 84469730. Bere Regis 6. Bowl barrow listed, details as Authy 2. <4>

SY 84469730 Bowl (?) barrow, 41ft diameter and 2 1/2ft high, much spread. <5>

SY 845971. Round Barrows on Bere Down. Scheduled. (Includes this barrow - see illustration). <7>

SY 84469730. Bowl barrow, diameter 17.0 metres approximately, height 0.2 to 1.0 metres maximum. Ploughed almost flat on the uphill side. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

The site of the barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <10>

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

(SY 84469731) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 16-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 88 (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.

'(110) Bowl (?) (SY 89 NW; 84469730) on N.E. edge of Bere Down above 300 ft. and just below 'Celtic' field lynchet of Ancient Field Group (31). Diam. 41 ft., ht. 2½ ft. Much spread.'

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

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-MAY-81 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455980 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<10> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:09PM