Monument record MDO7904 - Bell barrow in the Godlingston Heath Group, Studland

Bell barrow 56 feet diameter, 3 feet high with berm about 12 feet wide and ditch 12 feet wide and 1½ feet deep. The round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on Godlingston Heath.

Three bell barrows, 'A' - SZ 00678200; 'B'-SZ 00728196; ''-SZ 00718193, on Godlingston Heath (see illustration card for
measurements and profile of each barrow). A possible bowl barrow, 'D'-SZ 00698199, Impinges on the ditch of bell barrow 'A' (No
measurements given). <2>

'B'-(32)-SZ 00728197. Bell barrow, 56ft diameter and 3ft high with berm about 12ft wide and ditch 12ft wide and 1½ feet deep.
Excavation on top. <4>

SZ 006821. Group of three round barrows on south edge of Godlingstone Heath. Scheduled. <5>

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on Godlingston Heath. The barrow measures approximately 23 m in diameter and is surrounded by a ditch measuring up to 4 m in width. The barrow is scheduled in a group together with three others (see linked records). (3-5) These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1926-38 (Map). SWX1540.

('A', 'B','C' - Centred SZ 007820) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 12-DEC-52 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 164 (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, 452 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 69 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 101 (Index). SDO147.

‘Mound diam. 17.0m and 0.9m high. Berm diam. 21.4m and ditch diam. 28,8m width 3.7m and depth 0.5m. Situated on heathland and covered in bracken and grass. The mound lies eccentrically to the N. of its berm. This may be the result of past excavation which makes the mounds surface uneven. The excavation's soil may have been thrown to the N. as this area has a number of badger burrows indicative of loose soil. 1/2/B.’

<7> Royal Air Force, 12-MAY-1946, RAF 3G/TUD/UK/206 PART I 5006-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13455.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2398-99 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13465.

<9> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, F52/104/8 (Index). SDO14738.

BELL BARROW B FROM C - ONE OF A GROUP OF THREE

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F104/8 (Index). SDO14738.

BELL BARROW "B" FROM C.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457531 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 19 2024 4:33PM