Monument record MDO2655 - Bowl Barrow on Eype Down, Symondsbury

A Bronze Age burial mound. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 75 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high. The mound is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A bowl barrow 22 paces in diameter by 5ft high, with a central hollow. <2>

Bowl barrow 18.0 metres diameter by 2.0 metres high on the north, situated on high ground and covered by a heavy growth of bracken. No ditch could be seen. The large central hollow appears to be the result of excavation. <3>

Information as <2>. <5>

Round barrow on Eype Down, SY 438926. <6>

A Bronze Age barrow is visible as earthwork on lidar imagery <7> on Eype Down. The mound is 16m across and was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1928 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 43829256) Tumulus (NR)

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 239 (Monograph). SDO97.

(26) Bowl Barrow, on Eype Down, 150 yards S.W. of the W. part of (25), is about 75 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. high. It is covered with gorse.

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, 21/09/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 133 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4392_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450228 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2022 6:13PM