Monument record MDO7445 - Bowl Barrow at New Mills Heath, Corfe Castle

A mound situated on heathland, and interpreted as a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, though possibly a natural feature. In 1983 this monument was reported as being around 12 metres in diameter with a mound about 0.4 metres high.

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>

'B'-(25b) SY 95788384. Doubtful barrow. <2>

A sandy gorse and heather covered rise infested by rabbits. <3>

<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 547 (Index). SDO147.

‘Mound diam. 12.0m and 0.4m high. A sandy gorse and heather covered rise infested by rabbits. Possibly a natural feature. See OS SY98SE48B. 7/7/C’

<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 Wessex Region, 17 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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.

Record last edited

Sep 10 2024 9:51AM