Monument record MDO8074 - Bowl barrow, Tyneham

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946. The barrow is much denuded by military activity and no longer visible on recent Google Earth imagery.

SY 88008245. Bowl (?) barrow, 33ft diameter and 4ft high on summit of slight rise. <1-2>

SY 87998244; diameter 10.0m. and height 1.0m. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <3>

A small round mound, 9m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 <5>. It is considered to be the site of the Bronze Age barrow marked on the Ordnance Survey 4th edition (10K) mapping. The barrow is much denuded by military activity and no longer visible on recent Google Earth imagery.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<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.

‘(22) Bowl (?) (SY 88 SE; 88008245) on summit of slight rise above 100 ft. Diam. 33 ft., ht. 4 ft.’

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<5> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2422-23 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13712.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455513 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 21 2023 7:22AM