Monument record MDO8043 - Bowl barrow, Turners Puddle

A bowl barrow, ditched, with a hollow in centre of barrow: diameter 20 paces. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 16.0 metres and a height of 1.4 metres. The encircling ditch is 2.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep. A circular depression on top has a diameter of 3.5 metres and an approximate depth of 0.5 metres. It is filled with long heather. A fern and heather covered bowl barrow. <3>

SY 8323 9191. Ditched bowl (?) barrow, about 50ft diameter and 4 1/2 ft high on the north spur of a ridge. <4>

SY 8323 9190. No change. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery <6> to the east of Millicent's Plantation, Turners Puddle. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures 16 m in diameter. It is surrounded by a ditch measuring up to 1 m in width. This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 8323 9190) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-52 (Unpublished document).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.

'(19) Ditched bowl (?) (SY 89 SW; 83239191) on N. spur from ridge. Diam. about 50 ft., ht. 4½ ft.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456288 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 3:34PM