Monument record MDO8089 - Double bowl barrow on Povington Heath, Tyneham

A typical twin-barrow, both mounds being enclosed in an oval ditch. There is no berm except between the mounds. <2-3>

A twin-barrow with surrounding oval ditch, and line of orientation NW-SE. The NW barrow has a diameter of 13.0 metres, with a height of 1.8 metres. The SE barrow has a diameter of 14.5 metres, with a height of 1.4 metres. No surrounding berms. The berm between the mounds is 0.9 metres high, and 1.5 metres wide at its narrowest point. The surrounding ditch averages 1.7 metres in width and 0.4 metres in depth. Both mounds and ditch are heather and bracken covered, and there are no signs of excavation. <4>

SY 88048412. Ditched double bowl barrow of oval shape with two crestsin profile. The length is 105ft. north west - south east, 69ft. and 62ft. wide beneath crests and respectively 6ft. and 7 1/2ft. high.The ditch, about 10ft. wide, surrounds the whole. <5>

SY 880841. Round barrow on Povington Heath. Scheduled. <6>

A twin barrow as measured and described by Authority (3), the ditch being slightly waisted between the barrows (see illustration card). Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

A Bronze Age twin-barrow with narrow surrounding berm and oval ditch is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Povington Heath <10-12>. The oval ditched enclosure is 37m by 23m in size and the enclosed barrows 17m and 14m across. The features are still extant on the most recent Google Earth images.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 88048412) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 23-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 23-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> 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.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<7> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F3 NJA 07-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 172 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on heathland within the army ranges. 1/2/B.’

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> Royal Air Force, 21-JAN-1945, RAF 106G/LA105 1033-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13710.

<11> Ordnance Survey, 19-APR-1982, OS 82047 505-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13709.

<12> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4419-20 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13706.

<13> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AO52/F43/1 (Index). SDO14738.

OVAL DITCHED DOUBLE BOWL BARROW FROM SOUTH (SEE DOR2/PT 3/454)

<14> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455479 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 21 2023 6:55AM