Monument record MDO8047 - Bowl barrow, one of the Black Hill Group, Turners Puddle

Bronze Age Bowl barrow, situated on a plateau known as Black Hill. The barrow has a mound composed of sand, earth and turf which has been destroyed on its north eastern side by a trackway. It now has an elongated mound 13 metres by 7 metres and 1.2 metres high. Surrounding the mound is a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditch has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide.

This barrow has a diameter of 17.0 metres and a height of 1.6 metresin the southern quadrant. It is slightly mutilated on top and in thesouthern quadrant. It has no surrounding ditch and is heather covered. A bowl barrow. <1>

A bowl barrow; no details given. <3>

SY 83789395. Bowl barrow, 57 ft diameter and 4 ft high. <4>

SY 83779395. This barrow has been destroyed on the NE by a track and is now an elongated mound 13.0m by 7.0m and 1.2m high. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

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

(SY 83779395) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 15-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (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, 454 (Monograph). SDO150.

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-FEB-81 (Unpublished document).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

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456230 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2024 4:25PM