Monument record MDO7812 - Bowl barrow, Morden

A bowl barrow reported in 1970 as being around 100 feet in diameter with a mound around five feet high and a surrounding ditch. A hollow on top of the mound suggests that the barrow has been partly disturbed, probably by antiquarian activity.

A bowl barrow, diameter 15.0m., height 1.6m., with indications of a ditch and hollow centre,. Situated in a fir plantation. <2>

A bowl barrow in Morden Park. <3>

SY 90369338. Ditched bowl (?) barrow, 45ft diameter and 5ft high situated on almost level ground has a disturbed and tree-covered top. <4>

SY 90359338. Bowl barrow, as described (4) with vague and unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

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

(SY90359338) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, 19/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 446 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(52) Ditched bowl (?) (SY 99 SW; 90369338) on almost level ground below 100 ft. Diam. 45 ft., ht. 5 ft. Disturbed on top and tree-covered.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, 28/01/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457406 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2024 3:52PM