Monument record MWX582 - Bowl Barrows on Rings Hill, East Lulworth

(A - SY 85658047; B - SY 85678048) Tumuli (NR) (1) `A - Bowl barrow, 109 paces diameter and 3ft high. B - Bowl barrow, 25 paces diameter and 6ft high. Either of these two barrows, or another two between Lulworth and Flowers Barrow, were opened by J Milner (although previously opened before him), but very badly recorded in Gents. Mag. (2). Both were also most likely opened by Kendall and Milner. A - (29) - SY 85668048. Bowl barrow, about 21ft diameter and 2ft high, on a tongue of land projecting west below Rings Hill at about 150ft. above O.D. Much damaged. B - (30) - SY 85688049. Bowl barrow, about 60ft diameter and 6ft high, in similar situation 26 yds N.E of (29). Much damaged. (3) SY 857805. Two round barrows on Rings Hill. Scheduled (4)

Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), pt 2,8 (Monograph). SWX8166.

Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), tumuli 8 and 9, pt 2 and 8. (Monograph). SWX8166.

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

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

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 10-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 1), p63 (Monograph). SWX2598.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 08-AUG-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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