Monument record MDO1279 - Bowl barrow in the Black Down Group, Kingston Russell

A bowl barrow, one of a loose scatter of barrows. In 1954 Ordnance Survey field investigation described it as a grass-coverred mound 13 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high.

Probably the remains of a barrow 45 ft diameter, 1 1/2 ft high, under the plough. <2>

Bowl barrow. Diameter 7 paces, height 1ft. <3>

A grass covered bowl barrow 13.0 m, diameter and 0.5m high, with no visible ditch. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY58199023] TUMULUS [OE]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (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 … (m) mound, probably the remains of a barrow, 200 yards S.S.E. of (1), is about 45 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high; it is under the plough.’

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 33 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 20.0m and ht. 1.3m. Freshly ploughed and constructed of brown earth with quartzite pebbles and flints, ringed by chalk. 1/3/C

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451246 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 25 2023 10:50AM