Monument record MDO2119 - Bowl barrow, Eggardon Hill, Powerstock

Bronze Age bowl barrow to the east of Eggardon Hillfort. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 27 feet in diameter with traces of a ditch and outer bank on the west side.

SY 54659456: A bowl barrow; diameter 10 paces, height 3 1/2 ft. <1> <3-5>

One of a group of barrows which are grass covered, but on arable land, and have been ploughed over in recent years.

Barrow B; A grass covered bowl barrow situated against the bank of a disc barrow (HOB uid 1247903). The disc-barrow seems to be later and to have been constructed with deference to the bowl barrow. The mound has a diameter of 9 metres and a height of 1.3 metres with no visible ditch. It has been severely mutilated by rabbits. <7>

Listed as Powerstock 5 by Grinsell. <8>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Eggardon Hill, forming part of a barrow cemetery. The barrow appears to overlie the bank of the possible disc barrow or henge monument (MDO2118). The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <9>

<1> Warne, C, 1872, Ancient Dorset, 60 (Monograph). SDO10094.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[Group centred SY 54659449] TUMULI [OE] [Twice] TUMULUS [OE] (Site of)

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1929, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1928, 119 (Serial). SDO32.

<4> Piggott, S, and Piggot, C M, 1939, 'Stone and Earth Circles in Dorset', Antiquity Volume 13 Issue 50, 138-158 (Article in serial). SDO19843.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 185 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(29) BARROWS, in the S.E. angle of the parish and E. of Eggardon Camp. (a) disc barrow, or possibly a henge-monument (plan, p. xxxii), has a central mound about 45 ft. in diam. and disturbed in the middle. It is surrounded by a ditch and outer bank enclosing an area about 140 ft. in diam. On the S.W. side the bank is bent inwards perhaps to avoid (b), an earlier barrow, 27 ft. in diam., with traces of a ditch and outer bank on the W. side. … .’

<7> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 20-MAY-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<8> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 128 (Monograph). SDO132.

<9> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2451 4152-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11411.

<10> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 881774 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Barrows SE of Eggardon Camp, Askerswell, Dorset. Inscription: Distribution plan of barrows

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1456632 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2024 7:36AM