Monument record MDO8083 - Bowl barrow, one of the Five Barrow Hill Group, Tyneham

Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of six on Five Barrow Hill, and situated in heathland within the army ranges. In 1970 this monument, formerly around 42 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high, was reported as having been destroyed.

Five Barrow Hill Group of six round barrows, including three bells in an almost straight line along the summit of a slight ridge: 'E'-(31)-SY 87628390. Bowl (?) barrow, about 42ft diameter and about 4ft high. Destroyed. <2>

SY 876840. Five Barrows, round barrows. Scheduled. <4>

Barrows 'A' - 'D' approximate to the descriptions and measurements of Authority <3> 'E' has been destroyed, while 'F' is not a barrow but an area of greater vegetation growth with no underlying mound. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 138 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred SY 876840) Five Barrows (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 455 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 71 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 07-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 166 (Index). SDO147.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive (Index). SDO14738.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455476 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2024 4:01PM