Monument record MWX844 - King Barrow, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, Studland

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, covered with trees and ploughed to its edge is located 200 m to the south east of The Warren Wood. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 2006.

Bowl Barrow, covered with trees ploughed to edge. 13 paces diameter x 3 1/2ft high. <2>

This area is so heavily overgrown with brambles, thornbushes and nettles as to be impenetrable.

It was possible to ascertain that the barrow has not been levelled. <3>
SZ 04618202. King Barrow, bowl barrow, 43ft diameter and 4ft high situated on top of natural knoll. <5>

SZ 046820. King Barrow, round barrow. Scheduled. <6>

No change to Auth <5>. In fair condition. Scrub covered. 40m OD. 1:2500 correct. <7>

The Bronze Age bowl barrow, described above in <1-7 and 2.1) is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 2006. The barrow is formed of a mound measuring 13 m in diameter <9>. This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 111 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated in the NW corner of a field planted with a root crop when visited. This prominent rise covered in dense blackberry and hawthorn. The perimeter of the barrow on the E and S has been squared and steepened by basal ploughing. To the N and W tracks converge passing close to the mound and creating a false berm on the N. Some damage by animal burrows visible on W. Mound diam. 13.1m and Ht. 1.2m. OS SZ08SW20. 1/2/C.’

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 6in. Prov. Ed, 1926-38 edition OS map (Map). SWX2257.

(SZ 04608203) King Barrow (Tumulus) (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 25-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 01-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 453 (Monograph). SDO150.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 1), 69 (Monograph). SWX2598.

<7> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F3 CFW 10-SEP-85 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Monuments Record, 18-NOV-2006, SZ 0482/14-17 NMR/24138/05-08 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12811.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457606 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 2 2025 5:23PM