Monument record MDO8040 - Bronze Age Round barrow, Turners Puddle

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1979. The barrow appeared to be extremely mutilated by military activity.

A bowl barrow at SY 8289 9096. Diameter 20 paces, height 3 1/2 ft. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 15.0 metres and a height of 1.3 metres and has no surrounding ditch. It has been mutilated by tanks which has revealed the mound to be constructed of gravel. A bowl barrow. <3>

SY 8290 9096. Bowl (?) barrow, 48ft diameter and 4 1/2ft high, much damaged. <4>

SY 8290 9096: No change. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Bowl Barrow - recorded by the OS Field Reviser during investigation of the area as having been destroyed by tank activity. <6>

Destruction of the barrow confirmed. The site is now in the middle of the junction of trackways on the tank range. Ground photo with archive report. <7>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1979 <9>. The barrow appeared to be extremely mutilated by military activity. The barrow is sub-oval in shape and measures 20 m by 14 m . This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 8289 9096) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 454 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(16) Bowl (?) (82909096) 100 yds. S. of (15). Diam. 48 ft., ht. 4½ ft. Much damaged.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, OS Small Scales Reviser Jun 1991 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<7> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, KC, MPPA, Dec-2001 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<8> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AO52/F72/2 (Index). SDO14738.

MUCH DAMAGED/OBLITERATED.SEE DOR2/PT 3/453

<9> Ordnance Survey, 27-SEP-1979, NMR OS/79140 028-030 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13606.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456305 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 24 2023 3:49PM