Monument record MDO7533 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Corfe Castle

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated to the north of Coombe Bottom on a spur overlooking Coombe Bottom to the south. It has a mound 25 metres in diameter and about 0.5 metres high. The mound is surrounded by an infilled quarry ditch, which survives as a buried feature some 2 metres wide. It is the southernmost of a pair of bowl barrows (the other being MDO7410). It was visible as a very low earthwork on 2009 lidar imagery.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on a spur overlooking Coombe Bottom to the south. It has a mound 25 metres in diameter and about 0.5 metres high. The mound is surrounded by an infilled quarry ditch, which survives as a buried feature some 2 metres wide. It is the southernmost of a pair (see SY 97 NE 11). Scheduled.

One of two mounds to the north of Coombe Bottom. This possible barrow is 25m across and was visible as a very low earthwork on lidar imagery <4>. The mound was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 709 (Index). SDO147.

'Probable Bowl Barrow. Diam. 24.0m and height 0.8m. Situated in a regularly ploughed field for pasture. Mound reduced and spread by ploughing. Swanworth limestone quarry 200m to the S. '

<2> DCMS, 1999, Scheduled Monument Notification 1999, 29-Oct-1999 (Scheduling record). SDO17351.

<3> DCMS, 2000, Scheduled Monument Notification 2000, 07-JUL-2000 (Scheduling record). SWX2721.

<4> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1300254 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 20 2023 3:03PM