Monument record MDO7203 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bloxworth Down Group, Bloxworth

A bowl barrow visible as an earthwork. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 45 feet in diameter with a mound 2 feet high. The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs. It was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

'A' - 'D', 'H' - 'M', bowl barrows with diameters ranging from 10-23 paces and heights from 6 inches to 6 feet. (8)

A group of twelve barrows comprising eight definite bowl barrows - 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'H', 'J', 'K', and 'L'; three probable bowl barrows - 'F', 'G' and 'M'; a disc-barrow - 'E'. The group is visible on air-photographs. 'F', 'H' and 'M' are ploughed out; the bank and ditch of 'E' is only partly visible. A 25" survey has been made. (Swatridge 1954)

See attached concordance of barrows on Bloxworth Down as listed by Grinsell and RCHM. See plan (authy 8) (8,13)

Save for 'K' and 'L', the majority of this group is currently inaccessible. It is notable that air photographs (J) and (K) show a field system SY 89 NE 18 (now ploughed out) where some field boundaries terminated on barrows (see sketch plan). Barrows 'A', 'B' and 'C', visible in corn.

The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery (Environment Agency 2021) and cropmarks on aerial photographs (NMR 2007). It was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

Swatridge, G C, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments GCS, 1954-11-09 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

Attrill, N J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NJA, 1981-05-27 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

['A' : SY 87679623; 'B': SY 87699621; 'C' : SY 87729623; 'D' : SY 87689625; 'E' : SY 87709628.] TUMULI [OE]

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A': SY 87679623; 'B': SY 87699621; 'C': SY 87729623; 'D': SY 87689625; 'E'; SY 87709628; 'G': SY 87659628; 'J': SY 87709623; 'K': SY 87669619; 'L': SY 87699619) Tumuli (NR)

National Monuments Record, 06-JUN-2007, NMR 24629/48 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19895.

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

<1> John Hutchins, edited by Gough and Cuming, 1774, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 1st edition. Volume 1, 184 (Monograph). SWX2949.

<2> Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, 93, 1849 (Serial). SDO19703.

<3> Society of Antiquaries of London, 1871, Archaeologia 43, 495 43(2) (Serial). SDO17248.

<4> Warne, C, 1888, Pamphlets and notices, 14 (Monograph). SDO17114.

<6> Abercromby, J, 1912, A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, 65 2 (Monograph). SDO10121.

<7> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3344-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19635.

<8> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<9> Society of Antiquaries of London, 1935, Archaeologia 85, 217 (Serial). SDO19666.

<11> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 94 (Monograph). SDO132.

<12a> Clay, Dr, Annotated Record Map 6" (Dorset County Museum), Pte 6", Dorset Museum 1963 (Map). SDO18027.

<13> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 440 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Bloxworth Down Group (SY 89 NE). Fifteen barrows, including one disc or bell-disc, and comprising all the barrows in the parish, lie on a N. slope at the W. end of a chalk ridge between 170 ft. and 236 ft. above O.D.; (29) is on the highest point in the parish, and ten others cluster N. and E. of it. … Two have been destroyed and all but (29) and (30) are badly damaged by ploughing, as are adjacent 'Celtic' fields (Group 33). … (32) Bowl (87689624) 25 yds. N.W. of (31). Diam. 45 ft., ht. 2 ft.’

<14> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-1980, OS 80/021 218-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19641.

<18> DCMS, 1998, Scheduled Monument Notification 1998, 1998-01-29 (Scheduling record). SWX1137.

<19> Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 102 4 (Article in serial). SDO20195.

<20> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<21> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 13 2025 1:31PM