Monument record MDO7212 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bloxworth Down Group, Bloxworth

The site of a bowl barrow, though to have been entirely destroyed. 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.

All bowl barrows; 'A' is 36 paces in diameter and 3 1/2 feet high; 'B' is 25 paces by 1 foot; 'C' is 21 paces by 2 feet. Either 'A' or 'B' was opened in 1854 and contained a probable primary cremation with a bone pin; at least two secondary cremations beneath inverted MBA collared urns and a cremation just below the top in an inverted urn. Near this were six intrusive skeletons - Warnes No 13.

'C' was probably opened circa 1854, and contained a primary ? cremation and bucket urn with horseshoe handles beneath a cairn. Three MBA urns and one ?MBA/LBA hybrid urn from barrows on
Bloxworth Down are in the British Museum and are doubtless these, most or all from the Durden Collection. The bone pin is also there. Warnes No 15. <2>

Three bowl barrows with no evidence of ditches. On a southern slope under stubble and grass. All are somewhat spread and mutilated and 'B' is now ploughed out. (3)

'B' - (41) SY 87769647. Barrow (?) now entirely destroyed. <5>

The barrows are presently under crop and inaccessible. None are visible on (b). 'B'. Not seen in crop but visible on (a) and ©. The published diameter of 'A' corresponds with the measured diameter, therefore the present depictions of 'A', 'B' and 'C' are accepted. <6>

The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is 23m across and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <8-10>

Next Perspectives, 21-AUG-2001, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (Aerial Photograph). SDO19893.

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

('A': SY 87539649; 'B': SY 87759646; 'C': SY 87669637) Tumuli (OE)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<2.1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1861, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 1, 184 (Monograph). SWX4496.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, 04/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 87529649: 'C' - SY 87669637) Tumuli (NR) (NAT)

<5> 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.; … (40–3) are outliers to the N. … Two have been destroyed and all but (29) and (30) are badly damaged by ploughing, as are adjacent 'Celtic' fields (Group 33). (39–40) have been excavated. A third dug by Shipp in 1854 (Hutchins I, 184) might be (41), (42) or a barrow at about 87759595 (on O.S. 1811). It contained an apparently primary cremation with a bone pin 2 ins. long; two secondary cremations under inverted collared urns; a third, near the surface, beneath an inverted urn with a bone needle about 6 ins. long and, near it, six inhumations lying E.-W. The pin and four urns from Bloxworth Down are in the B.M., and a B1 beaker has also been recorded (Abercromby I, 22 and fig. 32). … (41) Barrow (?) (87769647) 130 yds. N.E. of (40). Entirely destroyed.’

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, 02/06/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4127 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19636.

<6.2> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-1980, OS 80/021 218-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19641.

<6.3> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3344-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19635.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455740 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

<9> National Monuments Record, 03-OCT-2011, NMR 27312/01 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19894.

<10> Google Earth, 01-JAN-2005, Google Earth 2005 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18557.

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