Monument record MDO412 - Bowl barrow North of Whitfield Farm, Bradford Peverell

Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. A central pit can be seen on the photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as 90 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. It was opened in 1879 by antiquarian Edward Cunnington, who found a skeleton in a large oval grave, with a bronze dagger, and other burials.

Bowl barrow, 90ft diameter and 3-4ft high situated north west of Whitfield Farm is Cunningtons No 9 opened in 1879 when a primary inhumation with a bronze knife-dagger was found in an oval grave 6ft deep in the chalk. Other burials, worked flints, etc were also found. <1> <3> <4>

The ploughed bowl barrow, now merging with the surrounding land, measures 34.2 metres in diameter and 1.4 metres high on the lower south-east side. (See ground photograph). Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A bowl barrow located north-west of Whitfield Farm and immediately south-east of a Neolithic long barrow. The barrow forms part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery associated with the long barrow.<6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The barrow is 23m across and appears to have a central pit. <7-8>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 42 (Serial). SDO25.

‘9. Frome Whitfield, in 2nd field from Farm House. Six feet below ground level, skeleton in large oval grave 8½ins. x 6ft. 0ins., with bronze dagger, 3 ins. ; also other burials, worked flints, &c. July, 1879.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 67269180) Tumulus (NR)

<3> 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). … (h), 290 yards E.S.E. of (g), is 90 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high. It is Cunnington's No. 9, was opened in 1879 and contained a skeleton in a large oval grave, with a bronze dagger; there were other burials, worked flints, etc.’

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

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 23-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument revision, 24-NOV-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18414.

<7> 26-APR-1989, NMR SY6791/3-4 (4306/04-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10869.

<8> 05-JUL-2004, NMR SY6791/43-48 (23540/32-37) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10868.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453389 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 4:08PM