Monument record MDO8420 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, North Hill, Worth Matravers

A bowl barrow situated on North Hill, a prominent plateau. Bronze Age bowl barrow, 30m across, visible as low earthworks on lidar. The barrow has a mound composed of earth and limestone blocks. Surrounding the mound is an infilled quarry ditch, surviving as a buried feature 2 metres wide.

SY 96637793. An earthen mound, most probably a round barrow, lies in a level arable field on the fringe of an area of strip lynchets (SY 97 NE 53). It has been spread by regular ploughing and now measures approximately 24.0m by 20.0m and 1.2m high. There is no evidence of a ditch, nor of disturbance other than ploughing. <1>

Site of a bowl barrow, 30m across, is visible as earthworks on lidar <2-3> and digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

Historic England, Scheduled Monument Notification, 07-Jul-00 (Scheduling record). SDO17468.

<1> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F1 MJF 25-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<2> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<3> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456506 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 9 2022 6:35PM