Monument record MDO8345 - Bowl barrow, Wool

A small bowl barrow, 15m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the south bank of the river Frome. The barrow is situated on a knoll overlooking the valley to the north. The mound is surounded by a ditch this is visible to the south as a depression 3m wide and 0.2m deep, and likely to survive elsewhere as a buried feature. The top of the mound has a hollow and a 1m wide trench cut into it. These features possibly relate to military training activities.

A large bowl barrow with a ditch. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 15.0 metres and a height of 1.4 metres. There are only slight traces of a ditch in the East and South-East and here it is 3.0 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep. Elsewhere there is no trace of a ditch.
A hollow in the top has a diameter of 3.5 metres and is 0.6 metres deep and has a trench 1.0 metres wide leading from it to the Western base of the mound. Heather and fern covered. There were no surface finds. Bowl barrow. <4>

SY 81988750. Ditched bowl barrow, 43ft. Diameter and 5ft high with traces of ditch about 10ft. Wide, situated at the north-west end of a heathland plateau. The mound is steep-sided and flat-topped, though damaged by an excavation trench from the west. Hollowed in the centre. <6>

SY 820875. Round barrow east of Hyford Cottage. Scheduled. <8>

A bowl barrow at SY 81978749 is generally as described and measured by Authority (3). Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <9>

A small bowl barrow, 15m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken 1947 <3> on the south bank of the river Frome. It was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. The feature is not visible under scrub on the most recent Google Earth imagery.

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

(SY 81988750) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6421-22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13237.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 26-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 158 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 474 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(47) DITCHED BOWL (SY 88 NW; 81988750) at N.W. end of heathland plateau dropping sharply to N. and E. Diam. 43 ft., ht. 5 ft. with traces of ditch about 10 ft. wide. Mound markedly steep-sided and flat-topped, though damaged by excavation trench from W. and hollowed in centre.’

<7> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 1), 75 (Monograph). SWX2598.

<8> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 17-04-1997 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<9> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 26-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455272 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:30PM