Monument record MDO8076 - Bowl barrow, Tyneham

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 49 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high and surrounded by a shallow ditch 8 feet wide. The barrow mound is still visible as earthworks on the most recent Google Earth imagery.

Surveyed at SY 87728272 is a bowl barrow with a diameter of 16.0m. and a height of 0.9m. It is surrounded by a ditch 3.0m. wide and 0.4m. deep. The barrow is heather-covered and slightly pitted by shell fire but with no traces of excavation. <1>

SY 87718272. Ditched bowl barrow, 49ft. diameter and 2 1/2ft. high with shallow ditch 8ft. wide. <3>

SY 87718271. Bowl barrow, diameter 15.0m. and height 0.8m. There are unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MS.D. <4>

Bowl barrow recorded as having been destroyed by track construction in the tank ranges by the OS Field Reviser. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 <8>. The barrow mound is 17m across and still visible as earthworks on the most recent Google Earth imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck NMP.

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 24/07/1952 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

SY 87608281. (see SY 88 SE 14)) Tumuli (NR) SY 87728272)

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

‘(24) Ditched bowl (SY 88 SE; 87718272) on fairly level site about 120 ft. above O.D. Diam. 49 ft., ht. 2½ ft., with shallow ditch 8 ft. wide.’

<4> Mead, Richard, Field Investigators Comments RPM, F2 RPM 29/07/1981 (Unpublished document). SWX2301.

<5> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 159 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on heathland within the army ranges. 1/1/A.’

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, October 1998 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4238-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13711.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455423 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 2:35PM