Monument record MDO7444 - Bowl Barrow at New Mills Heath, Corfe Castle

Possible barrows adjoin the track from the Corfe-Wareham road to Scotland Farm on New Mills Heath. East of the track are two possible adjacent barrows at 'A'-SY 95768385 and 'B'-SY 95788384. <1>

'A'-(25a). SY 95768385. Bowl barrow, 8 paces diameter and 2ft high. <2>

The aerial photograph plot was not located when visited in 1985. <4>

<1> Farrar, R A H, 1954, Corfe Castle, New Mills Heath., 79 (Article in serial). SWX3184.

‘Some unrecorded barrows in Purbeck. Mr. P. A. Brown has found several probable or possible barrows which are not recorded on the O.S. maps. … Corfe Castle, New Mills Heath, adjoining the track from the Corfe-Wareham road to Scotland farm ; in heathland, above the 50 ft. contour. East of the track, two adjacent possible barrows, SY(30)/95768385, and 95788384, and a probable barrow with traces of ditch, impinging on the track about 90 yds. S.S.W., 95718378. Another possible barrow, west of the track and on the north side of and old (? clay-)pit, 95638381.’

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954, 79 (Serial). SDO54.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 103 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 546 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on heathland close to IOP547 (mound) but this aerial photograph plot was not located when the site was visited. 7/7/E’

<4> Papworth, M, 1992, Middlebere, Corfe Castle Estate, Dorset. Wessex Region, 17 (Unpublished document). SWX1394.

One of four possible burial mounds in the vicinity of the clay pit 112,363. It measures 10m dia. and 0.3m high and was identified in 1954. It is most probably the result of upcast from the clay pit as the O.S. 1” – 25” map shows a spread of quarry spoil across the site. Visited 28/10/1987.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456854 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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