Monument record MDO7448 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Brenscombe Heath, Corfe Castle

Bowl Barrow. Hollow in centre. <2>

A Bowl Barrow with a diameter of 9.0m. and a height of 1.0m. A hollow in the top measures 3.0m. diameter and has a depth of 0.4m. and appears to be the result of excavation. Heather covered with no trace of a ditch. <3>

SY 98638355. Bowl barrow, 30ft diameter and 3ft high with hollowed top. <4>

SY 986836. Round barrow on Brenscombe Heath. Scheduled. <6>

SY 98628354. A round barrow situated at 51m OD on high ground at the edge of a level moorland plateau.

Of earthern construction with a naturally occuring small stone content it measures 9.2m in diameter and up to 1.0m in height. A trench now 0.5m deep has at sometime been dug into the centre from the SE side with some spoil dumped against this side; a slight discolouration of the grass around the heather-covered mound may indicate the presence of a ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500.

The moorland adjacent to the barrow is being deep ploughed, perhaps for the first time but nothing of significance was noted. <8>

Bowl barrow, 470 metres west of Burnbrake Cottage. The barrow mound measures a maximum of 10 metres in diameter and around 0.9 metres high. The surrounding quarry ditch has become infilled but will survive as a buried feature around 1.5 metres wide. Scheduled. <9>

A bronze Age round barrow, approximately 10.2m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on Brenscombe Heath, Corfe Castle <10>. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1925 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 98628354) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 23-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<2> 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.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 26-AUG-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> 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.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 27 (Index). SDO147.

<8> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F3 MJF 13-OCT-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<9> DCMS, Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduled Monument Review, 06-OCT-2000 (Scheduling record). SWX2456.

<10> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4401-02 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13644.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456746 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 5 2024 12:29PM