Monument record MDO8084 - Bowl barrow, one of the Five Barrow Hill Group, Tyneham

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, much mutilated by military activity, visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs. One of a linear barrow cemetery on Five Barrow Hill.

Five Barrow Hill Group of six round barrows, including three bells in an almost straight line along the summit of a slight ridge: 'D'-(32)-SY 87638393. Bowl barrow, 62ft diameter and 4 1/2ft high. <3>

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

Barrows 'A' - 'D' approximate to the descriptions and measurements of Authority (3). Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, much mutilated by military activity. The spread barrow is as much as 39m across and is visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs <6>. It is one of a linear barrow cemetery on Five Barrow Hill. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<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, 454-455 (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 Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 07-JUL-81 (Unpublished document).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> Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA/200 1047-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13708.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455476 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2024 4:04PM