Monument record MDO7143 - Ditched Bowl Barrow, Bere Regis

A ditched bowl barrow, one of a cluster of three barrows near the parish boundary. In 1970 this monument was recorded as being around 69 feet in diameter with a mound about 1 foot high surrounded by two concentric ditches. The site of the barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

('B' - SY 86129635) "Double concentric circle visible as cropmark". <1>

'B' - Probable bowl barrow visible on ploughland as a vague mound, 28.0m diameter, 0.3m high to the south with possible ditch. <2>

'B' - (114) - SY 86129635. Ditched bowl barrow, 69ft diameter and 1ft high. Two concentric ditches visible as crop-marks measure 31ft diameter and 6ft wide (inner) and 70ft diameter and 7ft wide (outer). <3>

The barrows are presently under crop and inaccessible. … 'B'. Not visible, though discernible on (a) and described by Grinsell. <4>

SY 86059639 Three bowl barrows 515m SE of East Field Farm, the easternmost known as Bolton's Barrow. The barrows each have a mound composed of earth, flint and chalk with maximum dimensions of between 30m-32m in diameter and between c.0.35-0.6m high. <5>

BELOW From NRHE but source no not listed by them.

SY 86119633 Bowl barrow 600m SE of East Field Farm. The barrow survives as an earthwork 23m in diameter and c.0.45m high. (9)

SY 86169642 Bowl barrow 600m ESE of East Field Farm. This barrow is only visible on aerial photographs and has a diameter of 18m. (10)

The site of the barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM <11>.

<1> Anon, Undated, Pte 6 inch Dorset County Museum (Anon undated) (Map). SWX2203.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 15-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> 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.

‘A cluster of three barrows (SY 89 NE) lies on gentle slope to W. above 200 ft. contour and immediately inside parish boundary with Winterborne Kingston. (114) Ditched bowl (86129635). Diam. 69 ft., ht. 1 ft. Two concentric ditches visible as crop-marks measure 31 ft. in diam. and 6 ft. wide (inner), and 70 ft. in diam. and 7 ft. wide (outer).’

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 28-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<4.1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 88 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4.2> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-1980, OS 80/021 220-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19633.

<5> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument Notification, 17-Mar-97 (Scheduling record). SDO17381.

<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, 455720 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<11> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 3:04PM