Monument record MDO1267 - Disc Barrow in the Black Down Group, Kingston Russell

Bronze Age disc barrow to the west of Black Down. The site is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this barrow was described as being 1952 this barrow was reported as being around 73 feet in diameter, with a central mound about 13 feet in diameter and 1 foot high.

Bronze Age disc barrow to the west of Black Down. The site is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs. {1-2}

The northernmost of a group of barrows between the 500 and600 feet contours on or near the top of a ridge west of Black Down. In 1952 this barrow was reported as being around 73 feet in diameter overall, with a central mound about 1 foot high and 13 feet in diameter, and the bank and ditch much worn down.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11149.

<2> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3063-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11112.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 127-129 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(6) GROUP OF BARROWS between the 500 and 600 ft. contours on or near the top of a ridge to the W. of Black Down and ¾ m. N.E. of Kingston Russell House. The northernmost (a), a disc barrow, is 400 yards S. of the eighth milestone from Bridport on the main road. It is 73 ft. in diam. over all (for plan, see preface, p. xxxii); the bank and ditch are much worn down; the central mound is 13 ft. in diam. and 1 ft. high; . . . ‘

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 169 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 32 (Index). SDO12304.

This barrow has been completely ploughed out and the field is under a new grass crop. 7/7/E

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Aug 19 2019 9:36AM