Monument record MDO8088 - Bell barrow, Tyneham

Five Barrow Hill Group of six round barrows, including three bells in an almost straight line along the summit of a slight ridge:
'A'-(36) SY 87598410. Bell barrow, about 90ft diameter and 5ft high with berm about 12ft wide and ditch 12ft wide and up to 2 1/2 ft deep. <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 bell barrow 39m across. It is one of a linear barrow cemetery on Five Barrow Hill. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <8-9> and 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 (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 Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 07-JUL-81 (Unpublished document).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 (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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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> Ordnance Survey, 19-APR-1982, OS 82047 505-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13709.

<9> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

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

Record last edited

Jan 22 2024 4:37PM