Monument record MDO7867 - Bowl barrow, Steeple

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 40 feet in diameter with a mound about three feet high and surrounded by a ditch. The barrow has by cut into by a track.

Two ditched bowl barrows at SY 90768326 ('A') … (A) is 40 feet in diameter by 3 feet high, and is cut by a track. <3>

Two adjcent heather covered barrows on the crest of a ridge on Grange Heath about 170ft above OD, discovered by Brown <1>.
Both show signs of a ditch and of disturbance. SY 9075 8329. About 3ft high and 40ft diameter. ... Listed by Grinsell, numbers Steeple 3c and 3d. <2> These two mutilated round barrows lie on high ground at the edge of the army firing range. Covered by dense, mature gorse bushes and surrounded by deep rutted vehicle tracks neither barrow is at present accessible for inspection or survey. <5>

<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, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 451 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(22) Ditched bowl (SY 98 SW; 90768326) on crest of slight E.-W. ridge about 170 ft. above O.D. and 170 yds. N.E. of (20). Diam. 40 ft., ht. 3 ft. Cut by track.'

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 192 (Index). SDO147.

Situated on a heathland ridge, a low rise covered in gorse and heather. A ditch is clear only on the south. 7/7/C

<5> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F1 MJF 30-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 457095 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 15 2022 3:31PM