Monument record MDO8304 - Bowl barrow, one of the Black Knoll Group, Winfrith Newburgh

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 48 feet in diameter with a mound 8 feet high, and much disturbed. One of five small bowl barrows visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar.

A group of six heather-covered mounds, probably all bowl barrows, without berm or ditch, are situated on Blacknoll Hill. No surface finds were made. 'D' - SY 80668628. Irregular bowl barrow, approx 15.0m diameter; the height of the east quadrant being 0.8m and that on the west, 2.4m high. The northern extremity has been defaced by a shallow pit dug against the barrow.

There are numerous small pits on the top of the hill, some of which may have a military origin, anothers probably the result of gravel digging. <2>

Five much disturbed bowl barrows on Blacknoll. <3>

'D' - SY 80688627. (?) Bowl barrow, 48ft diameter and 8ft high, 20 yds south-east of Barrow 'C'. Grinsell No 12. <4> (This mound may be one of the barrows 'E' and 'F' seen by N V Quinnell, Authy 2, in 1952).

SY 866863. Five round barrows on Blacknoll Hill. <5>

The bowl barrows now gorse covered approximate to the descriptions and measurements of Authority <2> excepting the possible traces of ditches (see plan). Corrected N.G.R.'s are as follows: 'D' - SY 80658629. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 48 feet in diameter with a mound 8 feet high, and much disturbed <4>. It is one of five small bowl barrows visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <7> and lidar <8> and digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

(Centred SY 806863) Tumuli (NR) (four shown)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29/08/1952 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (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, 461 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(46) Bowl (?) (80688627) 20 yds. S.E. of (45). Diam. 48 ft., ht. 8 ft.’

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Mead, Richard, Field Investigators Comments RPM, F2 RPM 06/04/1981 (Unpublished document). SWX2301.

<7> Royal Air Force, 07-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1041-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13232.

<8> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

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

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AO52/F66/4 and 5 (Index). SDO14738.

PANORAMIC VIEW OF BARROWS A,B,C,D,E FROM NORTH (DOR2/PT 3/459)

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F66/4 and 5 (Index). SDO14738.

PANORAMIC VIEW OF BARROWS FROM THE NORTH

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455305 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 2 2025 10:51AM