Monument record MDO8020 - Barrow, Godlingston Hill, Swanage

Possible round barrow described by Grinsell as 27ft in diameter and 2ft high. (1)
RCHME says barrow is unlocated. (2)

The possible Bronze Age barrow described above in is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 2005 and 2006. The barrow measures 19 m in diameter and has a narrow surrounding ditch. (3) This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Large Bowl barrow. Opened by Austen: result uncertain. Another small barrow to the East (not shown on OS 6") (2)

This barrow has a diameter of 12.0m. and a height of 0.6m. It is no berm or ditch and is turf covered. It is mutilated by a small pit on top and by pits whih cut into the base in the North West and South West quadrant.

Bowl Barrow. (3)

'A' - SZ 01468120. Bowl barrow, 13 paces diameter and 3 1/2ft high opened by J H Austen and possibly previously by W.A. Miles; possibly primary cremation (?) found.

'A' SZ01468120. Bowl(?) barrow, formerly larger, now slightly oval in plan; average diameter 48ft and about 2ft high. Probably opened by Miles who found a primary cremation between two horizontal stones, and later by Austen who found nothing.

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

(SZ 01468120) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 11-AUG-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 25-OCT-52 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 133 (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> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457540 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2024 7:30AM