Monument record MDO730 - Bowl barrow on Green Hill, Cerne Abbas

One of five Bronze Age bowl barrows nearly in a line on a spur of the hill. In 1952 this monument, was reported as being around 44 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. The feature is visible as a sub-circular banked earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

(Centred SY 671994) Mounds(NR) two shown
Tumulus(NR) three shown
Tumuli (NR) two shown (1)

A group of round barrows and mounds on a spur of Green Hill.
A (i), (ii), B,C and F ploughed down: D and R ploughed out.
A (i): 14.2m. diameter, 0.3m. high.
A (ii): 10.8m. diameter, 0.2m. high.
B: 12.5m. diameter, 0.8m high.
C: 12.8m. diameter, 0.8m. high.
F: 9.9m. diameter, 0.7m. high; correctly positioned on OS 1:2500 plan at SY 67059935. (The NG Refs of D, E and F in 1955 were approximated from a Co. Series 6" - see Concordance Card).
Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

The feature is visible as a sub-circular banked earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project. <2>

Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 11-DEC-80 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452822 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 03-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 84 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(37) BARROWS, on a spur of Green Hill 1 m. S.S.E. of the church, are five in number and nearly in a line. … (c) bowl barrow, 70 yards S. of (b), is 44 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high.’

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 1 2024 3:45PM