Monument record MDO7912 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Studland

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow 28.0 metres in diameter and has a height of 1.8 metre. It has no ditch or berm and is turf covered. It is spread out and badly pitted on top and in the southern quadrant. Is located to the west of Ferry Road and to the north of Wadmore Lane, Studland. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s.

'A' at SZ 03238305 is a bowl barrow with a diameter of 28.0m. And a height of 1.8m. It has no ditch or berm and is turf covered. It is spread out and badly pitted on top and in the southern quadrant. (2)

'A' - SZ 03238305. Bowl barrow, 30 paces diameter and 5 1/2ft high. (3)

'A' - SZ 03238306. (40) Bowl (?) barrow, about 60ft diameter and about 2ft high on natural knoll and merging with it. Hollowed on top. (4)

Two barrows remain generally as described by Auth 4. A: Is on undisturbed grassland and is in good condition. No change to published survey. The published 1:2500 survey has been revised. Both are 23m OD. (6)

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s. The barrow is formed of a sub-oval mound measuring 20 m by 26 m, surrounded by a ditch measuring up to 3 m in width. (8) The site is still partially visible as an earthwork on the most recent comprehensive aerial imagery available to the project. (9) This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

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

(Centred SZ 032830) Tumulus (NR)(Twice)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 01-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (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, 453 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 109 (Index). SDO147.

‘Bowl barrow, Diam. 18.2m and Ht. 0.6m. Situated on pastureland newly ploughed when visited. The mound has been ploughed down and now merges with the natural knoll on which it was built. The hollow on top reported by the RCHM now shows as a lighter soil mark only. OS SZ08SW12. 1/3/C.’

<6> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F2 CFW 10-SEP-85 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 3307-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12791.

<9> Google Earth, 01-JUN-2012, Google Earth 2012 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12633.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457568 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 17 2023 12:27PM