Monument record MDO8338 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Winfrith Newburgh

The potential site of a Bronze Age barrow was identified at this location by the NMR field investigators. A small mound was identified on aerial photographs taken in 1970 which has since been plough-levelled.

The potential site of a Bronze Age barrow was identified at this location by the NMR field investigators. A small mound was identified on aerial photographs taken in 1970 which has since been plough-levelled (1). The site as digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0049-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13752.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 88 SW 25 (Index). SDO131.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 01-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

‘A grass covered mound 18.0m. diameter and 0.5m. high. No trace of a berm or ditch. No surface finds were made. Situated in a high and exposed position, it is probably a bowl barrow. Surveyed at SY 82158397.’

<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.

‘(37) BOWL(?) (SY 88 SW; 82158395) on summit of ridge above slopes to N. and S. Diam. about 60 ft., ht. 1½ ft. Ploughed.’

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 02-SEP-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

‘Nothing is now visible in the ploughed field.’

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Dec 23 2021 10:34AM