Monument record MDO8072 - Bowl barrow, one of the Thorn Barrow Group, Tyneham

'E'-(20)-SY87798191. Bowl Barrow, 74ft diameter and about 5 1/2ft high on slight rise. <2>

SY878819. Thorn Barrow, round barrow (See SY 88 SE 18) and three adjacent round barrows (probably 'B','C' and 'E' above). Scheduled. <3>

'E'. SY 87788191. Bowl barrow, diameter 27.0m., so severely damaged by military operations that only a rim 1.7m. high remains, and the north quadrant of this destroyed by a track. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Thorn Barrow Group. The barrow mound, 26m across, was identified on aerial photographs taken in 1946 <6> and was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck mapping project. The somewhat multilated barrow is still visible as an earthwork on the 2005 Dorset vertical photographs <7>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 877818) Tumuli (NR) (four shown) (SY 87788191) Tumulus (NR)

<2> 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.

<3> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 71 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4238-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13711.

<7> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2005, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13151.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455441 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 21 2024 3:39PM