Monument record MDO401 - Bowl barrow west of Higher Skippett Farm, Bradford Peverell

Bowl barrow, 42ft. diameter, 2'6" high, west of Higher Skippet Farm. <2>

A stubble covered ditchless bowl barrow. Diameter 14.0 metres. Height 0.4 metres in the south. Many flints exposed. <3>

The barrow, in an area of mowing grass, appears to have been completely ploughed out. Deleted from 1:2500 M.S.D. <5>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible an earthwork on aerial photographs. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 63689134) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 36 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(13) BOWL BARROW, W. of Higher Skippet Farm and nearly 1¾ m. S.W. of the church, is 42 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high.’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 11-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 95 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 22-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453752 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 3:38PM