Monument record MDO7909 - Bowl barrow in the Thorney Barrow Group, Studland

Small Bowl barrows. <2>

'B' (SZ 016582129 A bowl barrow with a diameter of 10.0m and a eight of 0.6m. With no surrounding ditch or berm. Spread towards the south. It is gorse and heather covered. <3>

'B' - (37) - SZ 01658212. Bowl barrow, 37ft diameter and 2ft high. <5>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery of 2010 <7>. The barrow measures 9 m in diameter. A second barrow is located immediately adjacent to the west (see MDO7908). This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SZ 01658212) Tumuli (NR) (two shown)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 25-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 01-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 453 (Monograph). SDO150.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 106 (Index). SDO147.

‘Mound diam. 11.3m and ht. 0.6m Faint heather covered rise situated on heathland. To the N. of a golf course and immediately N. of a track. OS SZ08SW14. 1/2/B.’

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457578 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 17 2023 4:01PM