Monument record MWX3889 - Ditched bowl or bell barrow, Worgret Heath Group

Ditched bowl or bell barrow, forming part of the Worgret Heath group. A circular mound surrounded by an outer ditch is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery of Worgret Heath, Wareham Town. It is considered likely to be the remains of the round barrow described above. It is one of two barrows lying adjacent to one another (see also MDO8118).

'A' Dimensions: Diam 32 yards. Height 6'-7'. Centre slightly disturbed. Well marked ditch 4 yards wide, 1 1/2 - 2' deep. <2>

Three barrows lettered A, B, & C. 'A'Diameter 11.5 metres; height 1.6 metres. No sign of a berm, but a surrounding ditch is 1.2 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep, with a small slit trench dug into the north side of the ditch. No appearance of any excavation in the top. Heather covered. Probably a bowl barrow. <3>

Three round barrows: (A) Ditched bowl or bell (90309724) 76 yards E.S.E. of (C). Diam., including possible berm on N., 61ft ht 6 1/2ft., with ditch 7ft wide and 1ft deep cut by modern ditch on S. Disturbed on top. <4>

SY 903872. Round barrows on Worgret Heath. Scheduled. <5>

A circular mound, approximately 15.7m in diameter with a 1.5m wide outer ditch, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <6> and Lidar imagery <7> of Worgret Heath. It is considered likely to be the remains of the round barrow described above. It is one of two barrows lying adjacent to one another (see also MDO8118). This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 6in. Prov. Ed (Map). SWX2257.

(Centred SY 903872) Tumuli (NR) (three shown)

<2> Grimes, W F, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (W F Grimes), 23.2.39 (Map). SWX2943.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 435 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> 1978, List of ancient monuments in England: Southern England, p59 (Monograph). SWX1558.

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6407 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13439.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456657 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 12:26PM