Monument record MDO8081 - Bowl barrow, Tyneham

A mound, possibly a bowl barrow, at 'C'-SY 88558371 is 18.0m. diameter and 1.6m. high with slightly mutilated top. There is no surrounding ditch nor trace of a berm. <2>

'C'-(29)-SY 88558372. Bowl barrow, about 55ft diameter and about 4ft high. Probably earlier than the south mound (i.e. SY 88568374) of double bowl barrow, above. <3>

'C'. SY 88558371. Bowl barrow, diameter 17.0m., height 1.0m., with a large pit in its top. 'C' Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

One of two barrows on Povington Heath, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <6-7>. The barrow mound is 18m across with an outer encircling ditch. It was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project and it still visible on recent Google Earth imagery.

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

(Centred SY 885837) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 23-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 29-JUL-81 (Unpublished document).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

<6> Royal Air Force, 21-JAN-1945, RAF 106G/LA105 1033-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13710.

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4419-20 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13706.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455489 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2024 4:17PM