Monument record MDO7907 - Thorney Barrow, a bowl barrow in the Thorney Barrow Group, Studland

Bowl barrow, one of a line of four barrows near the edge of Godlingston Heath. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 65 feet diameter with a mound about 8 feet high, but almost unrecognisable owing to encroachment of a large sand pit.

Thorny Barrow, destroyed. Quarried away before 1939. <2>

This mound has not been quarried away entirely, but fragmentary remains are still visible adjacent to a sand quarry; it is now impossible to give any measurement for these remains. This mound might possibly have been the result of a natural geological formation as seen in similar mounds in the proximity. <3>

SZ 01438210. Thorny Barrow, bowl(?) barrow, about 65ft diameter and about 8ft high, on the edge of a broad ridge but almost unrecognisable owing to the encroachment of a large sand pit. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 6in. Prov. Ed, 1926-38 (Map). SWX2257.

(SZ 01438210) Thorny Barrow (Tumulus) (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 19-AUG-53 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 01438210) Thorny Barrow (NR) (Site of)

<5> 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.

‘(35) Thorny Barrow, bowl (?) (01438210), on edge of broad ridge but almost unrecognisable owing to encroachment of large sand pit. Diam. about 65 ft., ht. about 8 ft.’

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 104 (Index). SDO147.

‘Mound Diam. 19.8m and Ht. 2.4m. Situated on heathland, nearly destroyed by a sand pit which has cut its N and E sides. A track passes it on the SW. Surviving remnant heather covered. 7/7/D.’

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457537 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 17 2023 3:44PM