Monument record MDO8078 - Bowl barrow at Earls Kitchen, Tyneham

Two round barrows on Earl's Kitchen. Scheduled. … (b) SY 87518323. 30ft diam, 2 1/2 ft high. <1>

Barrow destroyed by construction of a car park. <5>

Site of a levelled Bronze Age barrow. A small barrow mound, 15m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1945 <7>. There is no remaining trace identifiable on the most recent Google Earth images. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Department of the Environment, Inspector of Ancient Monuments (IAM) Record Form, 1960 (Scheduling record). SDO17470.

<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.

‘(26) Bowl (?) (SY 88 SE; 87518323). Diam. about 33 ft., ht. 1½ ft.’

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 161 (Index). SDO147.

Situated on heathland within the army ranges. 7/3/C.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA/200 1047-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13708.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455516 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 5 2024 12:36PM