Monument record MDO7214 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bloxworth Down Group, Bloxworth

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 67 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A bowl barrow, 24 paces in diameter and 4 feet high. <2>

A bowl barrow, 25.5 m in diameter and 1.7 m. high, with no sign of a ditch. It is on fairly level ground and has been recently ploughed. It is visible as a crop-soil mark on air-photograph : CPE/UK/1974/3345. <3>

(43) - SY 87289651. Bowl (?) barrow, 67 ft diameter and 4 ft high. <4>

The bowl barrow is visible under crop, though at present inaccessible. Survey on (5) retained on M.S.D. <6>

The site of this round barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <8>

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

[SY 87299652] TUMULUS [OE]

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, 04/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SDO16261.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1959 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY 87289651) Tumulus (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). … (43) Bowl (?) (87289651) on level site 260 yds. W.N.W. of (42). Diam. 67 ft., ht. 4 ft.’

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, 28/05/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455745 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 2:34PM