Monument record MDO7869 - Bowl barrow, Steeple

SY 91128340. Ditched tree-covered bowl barrow on a slight south-east slope steepening some 20 yards to the south. Diameter 30 feet, height 3 feet, with ditch about 4 feet wide. <3>

SY 91178343. Round barrow hidden by a pine copse on Grange Heath discovered by Brown <1>. It is approx. 3ft. High and 30ft. Diameter, grass covered and there is no apparent ditch. Listed by Grinsell, Steeple 3b. (Despite the difference in NGR and description between Authys <3> and <1> <2>, RCHM state that their
barrow No 24 is also Grinsell's Steeple 3b).

SY 91128340. A well preserved ditched bowl barrow situated on rising ground. It measures between 16.0m and 17.5m overall; the mound is 0.8m high and the ditch is 0.5m deep. <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.

'(24) Ditched bowl (SY 98 SW; 91128340) on slight S.E. slope, steepening some 20 yds. to S. Diam. 30 ft., ht. 3 ft., with ditch about 4 ft. wide. Tree-covered.'

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 194 (Index). SDO147.

A low rise situated in coniferous woodland (mature). The mound has been made uneven by animal burrows, probably rabbits. A N-S ditch passes immediately W. of the mound and may cut the barrow's ditch which is barely discernible. N. of the barrow is heathland but pasture begins 10m to the S. of the monument. 1/2/C

<5> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F1 MJF 01-MAY-86 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 457098 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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