Monument record MDO1515 - Kingston House: bowl barrow

The site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as low earthworks and soilmarks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this barrow was reported as being around 48 feet in diameter with a mound about 2 feet high and disturbed in the middle, presumably as a result of antiquarian investigation.

A bowl barrow with a truncated mound. Diameter 14 paces height 3 ft. <2>

Probably shown, disturbed in the middle. <3>

This mound has been spread by ploughing, and is rather irregular in outline. It can no longer be described as truncated and the disturbance of the centre is not visible, as reported in T2.

The mound is now under crops, and appears to be a ditchless bowl barrow with a diameter of 15.0m, a height of 0.4m on the S. and 0.3m on the N. <4>

The site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as low earthworks and soilmarks on aerial photographs. <6-7>

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

[SY 57869128] TUMULUS [O.E]

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 42 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(10) MOUND, probably a barrow, 60 yards N. of the road and 1,160 yards N.E. of the church, is 48 ft. in diam. and 2 ft. high. The middle has been disturbed.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 141 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace of this barrow. Under grass. 1/7/E

<6> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY 5791/31-3 (NMR 18961/13-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11121.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3147-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11120.

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451149 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2023 2:35PM