Monument record MDO1514 - Bowl barrow, Long Bredy

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible on aerial photographs. In 1952 the barrow was described as being around 40 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high, but reduced by ploughing.

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible on aerial photographs. <1>

One of four barrows in the area, probable bowl barrow, 40ft. in diam and 3.5ft. high. It has been ploughed. <2>

A bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Long Bredy 3 and by RCHME as Long Bredy 9(d). Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1955 recorded it as a grass-covered, ditchless mound 13 metres in diameter and up to 1.2 metres high. It had been dug into on the south side. <2-4>

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3149-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11104.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 42 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(9) BARROWS, N. of the road-junction on Martin’s Down about ½ m. N. of the church, are four in number. (a) bowl barrow, 60 yards E. of the road-junction, is 62 ft. in diam. and 10 ft. high. (b) probably a bell barrow, 100 yards W.N.W. of (a), is 90 ft. in diam. and 6 to 9 ft. high; the middle has been disturbed; there are traces of a ditch. (c) probably a bell barrow, 45 yards N.W. of (b), is 75 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high; it has a ditch. (d) perhaps a bowl barrow, 260 yards W.N.W. of (c), is approximately 40 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high; it has been ploughed.’

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

Not visible from Bridport Road. Situated in a regularly ploughed field and in ley pasture when visited. 7/7/E

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1315654 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 20 2023 3:23PM