Monument record MDO8199 - Bowl barrow on Trigon Hill, Wareham St Martin

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Trigon Hill Plantation taken in 1956. It is one of a group of barrows in a line on a small ridge in heathland. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 48 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high. The mound has been damaged, possibly by antiquarian investigation. It is not clearly visible on recent aerial imagery, this area now being heavily overgrown with scrub.

Bowl barrow. <2>

A bracken covered mound with no trace of a berm or a ditch, and does not appear to have been excavated. Diameter 17.0 metres; height 1.7 metres. A bowl barrow. <3>

SY 89168968. Bowl barrow, about 48ft diameter and 3ft. high. Damaged. <5>

SY 892897. Round barrow on Trigon Hill. Scheduled. <6>

SY 89168968. Bowl barrow in dense woodland. Diameter 17.0 metres, height 1.2 metres. No visible ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7>

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Trigon Hill Plantation taken in 1956 <9>. It comprises of a circular mound, approximately 20.9m in diameter. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. It is not clearly visible on the most recent aerial imagery available to the project, this area now being heavily overgrown with scrub.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1926-7/1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 89168969) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<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.

‘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).

(16) Bowl (SY 68 NE; 89168968). On plateau above 100 ft. contour. Diam. about 48 ft., ht. 3 ft. Damaged.’

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 18-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<9> Royal Air Force, 09-APR-1956, RAF 58/1976 F22 0011-12 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13200.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455172 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2024 5:13PM