Monument record MDO1948 - Bowl barrow, Piddletrenthide

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is marked on the OS first edition map on HogLeaze, Piddletrenthide. It is visible as an extant earthwork on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A cairn, Diameter 17 paces, height 3ft on Hog Leaze. <2>

A grass covered cairn with a large number of flints exposed. Diameter 13.0 meters, height 1.2 metres. No trace of a surrounding ditch or excavation. It has the superficial appearance of a bowl barrow in contrast to the true cairn. <3>

SY 73179931. Bowl barrow, 40ft diameter and 3ft high on Hog leaze near the summit of a ridge. <4>

SY 73189931. Bowl barrow under grass, not ploughed over. Diameter 18.0 metres, height 1.1 metres. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is marked on the OS first edition map on HogLeaze, Piddletrenthide. It is visible as an extant earthwork on lidar imagery <7> and was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

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

(SY 73179931) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 30-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 221 (Monograph). SDO136.

(51) Bowl (73179931), on Hog Leaze near the summit of a ridge, lies on a N.E. slope in arable. Diam. 40 ft., ht. 3 ft.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454680 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Oct 15 2024 6:09PM