Monument record MDO7213 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bloxworth Down Group, Bloxworth

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 100 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high. The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs. It has been trunkated on its western side by a modern field boundary and 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. <2>

Three bowl barrows with no evidence of ditches. On a southern slope under stubble and grass. 'A' and 'C' have the approximate dimensions given by Grinsell. All are somewhat spread and mutilated and 'B' is now ploughed out. <3>

'A' - (42). SY 87529650. Bowl (?) barrow 100ft. Diameter and 5ft. High but badly damaged. <5>

The barrows are presently under crop and inaccessible. None are visible on (b). 'A'. Visible under crop. Measured from track the bowl barrow is 36.4 metres in diameter and 1.8 metres high. Not visible on (a)
but visible on © (See ground photograph). 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 has been trunkated on its western side by a modern field boundary and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <8-9>

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 (Monograph). SWX4496.

<2.2> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866) (Monograph). SWX8166.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 04/11/1954 (Unpublished document).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)

<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). … (42) Bowl (?) (87529650) almost at foot of N. scarp of Down and 250 yds. W.N.W. of (41). Diam. 100 ft., ht. 5 ft., but badly damaged.’

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 02/06/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6.1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3344-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19635.

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

<6.3> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4127 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19636.

<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.

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