Monument record MDO1396 - Bowl barrow at Farm Wood, Littlebredy

Three bowl barrows, diameters of 'A' 'B' and 'C' 9, 5 and 7 paces respectively with heights of 1ft. 'A' has a hollow in the top. <2>

Bowl barrow, one of three, 24ft. in diam and 2.5ft high. Listed as especially worthy of preservation. <3>

Three ditchless grass covered bowl barrows, A, B and C, with respective diameters 9.0m, 7.0m and 7.0m, and from 0.3m to 0.4m high. <4>

'A' - SY 58788825. Littlebredy 20. <5>

SY 588882. Three round barrows west of Little Bredy Farm. Scheduled. <6>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying on the top of a chalk ridge at SY5878588245. The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <8> and is 11m across. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

('A' - SY 58788824; 'B' - SY 58878813; 'C' - SY 58928800) Tumulus (NR) (3 times)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 39 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 54 (Index). SDO12304.

9.0m diameter and 0.4m high. No trace of the hole in the centre mentioned by the OS in 1955. 3 large flints were seen embedded in the top of the mound. In pasture. Rarely ploughed. 1/2/B

<8> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11648.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450333 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:44PM