Monument record MDO8077 - Bowl barrow at Earls Kitchen, Tyneham

A Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946. The barrow is much denuded by military activity but still identifiable as a very low mound on recent Google Earth imagery.

A bowl barrow which has been badly mutilated in the NE quadrant in which sector the otherwise surrounding ditch has been obliterated. The barrow has a diameter of 19.0m. and a height of 1.8m. The ditch is 3.0m. wide and 0.4m. deep. Mutilated by shell-fire. There were no surface finds. <2>

SY 87608281. Ditched bowl barrow, 56ft. diameter and 5 1/2ft. high on summit of slight rise. <3>

SY 872828-875822. Two round barrows on Earl's Kitchen. Scheduled. <4>

This barrow has been destoyed by the military, to whom it must have been obvious since the constructed concrete pad and firing point is advertized as "Earl's Kitchen Tumulus". Token reparation has been effected by the transference of the "antiquity star" to a newly made mound at about SY 87508300, some 200m. N. of the destroyed barrow, but this could never be mistaken for a proper barrow. <5>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 <8-9>. The barrow is much denuded by military activity but still identifiable as a very low mound on recent Google Earth imagery <10>. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 87598281) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 24-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> 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.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 70 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 29-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 160 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on heathland within the army ranges. 1/2/B.’

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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/1821 4424-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13694.

<9> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4422-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13696.

<10> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455418 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 5 2024 12:34PM