Monument record MDO8299 - Bowl barrow, Nutley Farm, Winfrith Newburgh

A ditched bowl barrow situated on a steep-sided knoll. In 1970 the barrow was described as being around 23 feet in diameter with a mound about four feet high. The barrow was identified on aerial photographs taken in 1947.

A heather and bracken covered mound with a diameter of 9.0 metres, and a height of 1.0 metres. No sign of a berm, but traces of an unsurveyable ditch occur around the north and south quadrants. A slight depression exists in the top, and there is eneral small mutilations by rabbits. This bowl barrow is composed of earth and small flints; no surface finds were made during field investigation. <2>

A bowl barrow. <3>

SY 80158641. Round barrow, possible ditched bowl, 25ft diameter and 4ft high, disturbed in the centre, situated on the flat top of a steep-sided knoll. <5>

SY 802865 - SY 803863. Round barrows west of Blacknoll Hill. Scheduled. <6>

A bowl barrow at SY 80148640, generally as described and measured by Authority (3), though,like the knoll on which it stands, it has been considerably pitted by military activity. See ground photograph. Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <7>

A ditched bowl barrow situated on a steep-sided knoll. In 1970 the barrow was described as being around 23 feet in diameter with a mound about four feet high. The barrow was identified on aerial photographs taken in 1947 <9> and was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(SY 80158641) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-AUG-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (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, 461 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(41) Ditched bowl (?) (SY 88 NW; 80158641) on flat top of steep-sided knoll. Diam. 23 ft., ht. 4 ft. Disturbed in centre.'

<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 Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 25-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<9> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6424-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13230.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455288 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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