Monument record MDO7433 - Bronze Age round barrow, Nine barrow down, Corfe castle

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Nine Barrows Down, Corfe Castle. It is one of a group of seventeen Bronze Age round barrows (MDO7427-7442) and a Neolithic long barrow (MDO7407) located here.

A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 10.9m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Nine Barrows Down, Corfe Castle (1-3). It is one of a group of seventeen Bronze Age round barrows (MDO7427-7442) and a Neolithic long barrow (MDO7407) located here. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck mapping project.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 456762 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2402-03 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13669.

<2> Dorset County Council, 2002, VAP (Aerial Photograph). SDO13141.

<3> Pan Government Agreement, 2008, PGA (Aerial Photograph). SDO13137.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 98 SE 5E (Index). SDO131.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 443 (Monograph). SDO150.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 15 (Index). SDO147.

‘Mound Diam. 12.2m and Ht, 0.9m Situated on heathland, mainly grass covered with gorse on N and S sides. An E-W track erodes the top of the mound. The mound has an uneven surface. Original? Quarry pit to the S. See RAF/VAP/1821:2403. OS SY98SE5. 1/2/B.’

<7> Papworth, M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 43 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

A bowl barrow, part of a group of seventeen round barrows and a long barrow. Visible as a low rise 12.5m dia. and 0.9m high. It lies east of 112,155 on the crest of the chalk ridge and has no visible ditch but to the south of the mound is a quarry pit of irregular shape 16.5m long and 10m wide and 0.7m deep, perhaps for the construction of the barrow.

Nine barrows are shown on Woodwards map (1775). A cremation was found in one of these barrows (Miles 1826). This land has been downland since at least 1585 (Treswell) and appears never to have been ploughed.

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Oct 25 2024 4:06PM