Monument record MDO8249 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Bindon Hill, West Lulworth

A mound interpreted as a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 33 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high. A hole in the mound suggests that the barrow may have been the subject of antiquarian investigation.

B - Bowl barrow, 11 paces diameter and 3ft. High. Measurements supplied by A F Southall. <2>

Mound, possible barrow. It's diameter is 21ft and its height is 1.5ft. Its top has been opened and to its east is a circular depression. <4>

B: SY 84088025. A probable bowl barrow, 11m. E. to W. and 13m. N to S. It is 1.2m. High. Both barrows are much mutilated. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (see ground photograph). <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

Tumuli (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, NVQ 10-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 140 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 446 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(45) Bowl (?) (SY 88 SW; 84098026) 23 yds. E. of (44). Diam. 35 ft., ht. 3½ ft. Top opened. Immediately E. is circular depression, 21 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. deep.'

<5> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1980, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1977, 125 (Serial). SDO77.

<6> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 16-AUG-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455546 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455546 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

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