Monument record MDO411 - Bowl Barrow North of Whitfield Farm, Bradford Peverell

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as 85 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. This or an adjacent barrow is thought to have been opened in 1881 by antiquarian Edward Cunnington, who found a contracted burial, a food vessel and flint implements. Another burial with a piece of Samian ware was found higher in the mound, and was presumably an intrusive burial of late Iron Age or Roman date.

Three bowl barrows east of Forty Acre Plantation. <2>

'C' - SY 67039193. Bowl barrow, 85 ft diameter and 1 1/2 ft high. (RCHM No 15g: Grinsell's No 24). 'A' and 'C' are ditchless bowl barrows, both 21.5m diameter and 0.5m. High. 'B' is a bowl barrow 26.0m. Diameter and 0.7m high. <3>

Beaker (Corpus No 171) from this barrow, listed by Clarke. In Dorset County Museum. <5>

All the bowl barrows are now ploughed. 'C' measures 28.0 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres high on its lower side. (See ground photograph). Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Three bowl barrows, forming part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery associated with a Neolithic long barrow.<7>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is 22m across and visible as a double concentric ring ditch. <8-9>

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

(Centred SY 669919) Tumuli (NR) three shown.

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

‘(15) BARROWS, to the N. and E. of Forty Acre Plantation 1 m. S.E. of the church, are eight in number; some of them were opened by E. Cunnington 1879–87 (Dor. N.H. and Ant. F.C. xxxvii, p. 41). ... (g), 50 yards N.E. of (f), is 85 ft. in diam. and 1½ft. high.’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 04-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 96 (Monograph). SDO132.

‘Either 23 or 24 was Cunnington 10: primary crouched interment, food vessel with handle, and flint implements; secondary, or more likely intrusive, skeleton and piece of Samian ware near top. Dorset Proc xxxvii, 40-47; also (?) BAP I, 45 and pl. XXII, 298; PPS iv, 98-9 and fig. 23, no. 2.’

<4.1> Cunnington, E, 1915, Cunnington MSS (Unpublished document). SDO10110.

<5> Clarke, D L, 1970, Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, 479 (Monograph). SDO18289.

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 23-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument Notification, 24-NOV-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO17381.

<8> 26-APR-1989, NMR SY6791/3-4 (4306/04-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10869.

<9> 05-JUL-2004, NMR SY6791/43-48 (23540/32-37) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10868.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453384 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 4:08PM