Monument record MDO7438 - 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 21m in diameter and surrounded by a 1m wide outer ditch, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Nine Barrows Down, Corfe Castle (1-2). 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> Pan Government Agreement, 2008, PGA (Aerial Photograph). SDO13137.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 98 SE 5C (Index). SDO131.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 444 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 20 (Index). SDO147.

‘Ditched bowl barrow. Mound Dian.21.3m and Ht2.4m. Ditch diam. 27.3m and width 3.0m and depth 0.3m Situated on heathland mostly grass covered. Gorse and bracken on the N. side and the mound perimeter. Mound slightly disturbed on top, ditch clear. Fence crosses ditch on the N&E. Beyond the fence the ditch is fainter in a field of managed grassland rarely ploughed. E-W path to the SW of mound. See RAF/VAP/1821:2403 and OS SY98SE5. 1/2/B.’

<6> Papworth, M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 45 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

A ditched bowl barrow, one of a group of seventeen round barrows and one long barrow. This is the second largest barrow of the group lying immediately east of the largest 112,157 on the crest of the chalk ridge. The barrow is visible as a very prominent rise 22m dia. and 2.5m high surrounded by a ditch 3.5m wide and 0.3m deep. RCHM (1970) records that the ditch of 112,157 cuts that of 112,161. Nine mounds are recorded on Woodward's map (1775) and a cremation burial is recorded from one of the barrows in this group (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 4:02PM