Monument record MDO3520 - Bowl barrow near Well Bottom, Ashmore

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, situated on a south east facing slope south west of Well Bottom. In 1972 the barrow was reported as being some fourteen metres in diameter, with the mound standing approximately 0.45 metres high.

Both bowl barrows are ditchless and under the plough. <1>

Two bowl barrows centred at ST 915162. <2>

'B' (ST 91511628) Bowl barrow 45 feet in diameter and 1 1/2 feet in height. <4>

At 'A' ST 91521629) and 'B' (ST 91501628) in arable farmland are the slight remains of two probable bowl barrows. The more pronounced ('B') is low ditchless mound 12.0m in diameter and up to 0.2m high. The other is now discernible only as a slight unsurveyable ground swelling some 9.0m in diameter. Other surface undulations in this field appear to be of recent agricultural origin. Revised at 1:2500 on AM. <5>

ST 916163. Two round barrows SW of Well Bottom. Scheduled. <6>

<1> Edwards, D W, Field Investigator's Comments DE, F1 DE 13-JAN-56 (Unpublished document). SDO18341.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 87 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

ST 91521629 & ST 91501628 Tumuli (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 3 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(17) BOWL (91511628) S.W. of Well Bottom on a S.E. -facing slope, lies at about 560 ft. above O.D.; diameter, 45 ft. height, 1 ft.'

<5> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 GB 15-DEC-77 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209926 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2022 11:41AM