Monument record MDO7646 - Bowl barrow north east of Monastery Farm, East Lulworth

One of three bowl barrows in a line on a gravel ridge. Recorded as a mound around 60 feet in diameter and over four feet high. The barrows are clearly visible as earthworks on recent aerial photographs.

Three bramble-covered, round barrows north of Monastery Farm, one of which was opened 1790 and contained a probable primary cremation in a Late Bronze Age bucket-urn placed within a cist covered by a thin stone slab. These three barrows may also have been opened 1825-32 by J F Pennie and published by Warne.

Warne No 51: quarter of a mile from Lulworth: primary (?) cremation is urn with very few ashes, in central cist, covered by small cairn.
Warne No.52: near last: primary (?) urn beneath cairn.
Warne No 53: near last, but small: primary (?) beneath cairn.

'B' SY 86378146. Bowl barrow 60ft. diameter and 4 1/2ft high. RCHM No 32. <2-3>

SY 864814. Three round barrows north-north-east of Monastery Farm. Scheduled. <4>

'B'. SY 86368146. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0m., height 1.7m. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5) jgb

One of three bowl barrows in a line on a gravel ridge. Recorded as a mound around 65 feet in diameter and over five feet high. The barrows are 14m to 18m across and clearly visible as earthworks on recent aerial photographs <6-7>. They were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SY 863814) Tumuli (NR) (three shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 106-7 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2.1> Gentleman's Magazine, 1790, 897-901 (Serial). SWX8280.

<2.2> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866) (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2.3> Society of Antiquaries of London, 1933, The Antiquaries Journal 13, 445 (Serial). SDO16730.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 445 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Bowls, three, spread and furze-covered, lie approximately in line on a gravel ridge over 200ft. above O.D. … (32) Bowl (86378147) 75 yds. E.S.E of (31). Diam. 60. ft., ht. 4½ ft.'

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 63 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0011-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13704.

<7> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455394 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 1 2024 7:43PM