Monument record MDO7440 - Bronze Age round barrow on 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. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck mapping project.

A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 12m in diameter and surrounded by a 1.5m wide outer ditch, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Nine Barrows Down, Corfe Castle (1). 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> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 98 SE 5A (Index). SDO131.

<3> 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.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 22 (Index). SDO147.

<5> Papworth, M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 46 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

A bowl barrow, one of a group of seventeen round barrows and one long barrow. This is the most easterly of the group. It is visible as a low rise 12.5 dia. and 1m high with a flat top indicating past excavation. It has no visible ditch but quarry pits are visible on the south-east edge of the mound which is 4m dia. and 0.3m deep and on the south-west which is 10m long 1m wide and 0.2m deep. These pits probably dug to obtain the material for the construction of the mound. The site lies on the crest of the chalk ridge. 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 4:03PM