Monument record MDO2199 - Bowl barrow near Heath Cottages, Puddletown

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being overgrown and cut away on the south side by a trackway, but still with the encircling ditch visible.

One of two bowl barrows with ditches;

`B' - diameter 18 paces, height 5 ft <2>

One of two bowl barrows planted with firs.

`B' - Diameter 15.0m, height 1.2m surrounded by a ditch 2.0m wide, 0.3m deep. The southern side of the barrow has been destroyed by a forestry track revealing a section of the barrow composed of sandy soil and small flints. There were no finds. <3>

`B' (29) - SY 74219166. Bowl barrow (no dimensions given) with traces of a ditch, is thickly overgrown and a track has cut away the base of the south side. <4>

`B' - SY 74219165, diameter 15.0m., height 1.2m, in thick undergrowth, partly destroyed on the south side by a track. Ditch 2.5m wide and 0.3m deep visible on all except the south side. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D <5>

The site of a Bronze Age bowl varrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

`A' - SY 73769176, `B' - SY 74219165 Tumulus [OE] [Twice

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 06-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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, 230 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(29) Bowl (74219166), 500 yds. E.S.E. of (28), on the S. edge of Puddletown Forest, lies at just under 200 ft. O.D. on ground sloping gently S. to the valley of the R. Frome. The mound is thickly overgrown and a track has cut away the base on the S. side. Traces of ditch. '

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 7-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> 15-FEB-2005, NMR SY 7491/15-6 (23748/13-14) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10752.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1044796 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 2:51PM