Monument record MDO8152 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Seven Barrows group, Wareham Town

A ninth barrow that may once have been part of a linear group on a ridge, but of which no trace now remains. A mound is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs of a field to the south-east of Seven Barrows Farm, located at NGR SY 91201 88603. It is considered likely to be the remains of an additional round barrow associated with the Seven Barrows group.

A ninth barrow that may have existed as part of the Seven Barrows group at SY91168857, but of which no trace remains. (1)

A mound, approximately 14m in diameter, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (2) of a field to the south-east of Seven Barrows Farm, located at NGR SY 91201 88603. It is considered likely to be the remains of an additional round barrow associated with the Seven Barrows group (MDO8144-51). This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> 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.

‘Eight of the nine barrows are in the Seven Barrows Group. Six others have been claimed, but four (LVG 1, 2 4 and 5) are probably upcast from gravel digging, and nothing remains of the other two.

(AA) SEVEN BARROWS GROUP (SY 98 NW)). Eight barrows, all but (13 ) in a near-straight line S.W.-N.E. on the summit of a small but sharply-defined heathland ridge above the 100 ft. contour. A ninth possibly existed at 91168857 but no trace remains. Probably all but (13) were dug into by Shipp and Durden in 1844 without result (C.T.D., cpf, no.1).’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 07-MAR-1971, OS/71005 002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13412.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 98 NW 8 (Index). SDO131.

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Feb 5 2024 4:34PM