Monument record MDO42925 - Probable Bronze Age Barrow, Magiston Hill, Godmanstone

A low sub-circular mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs on the east side of Magiston Hill, Godmanstone. The feature is recorded as a Bronze Age bowl barrow (NRHE Hob UID 453144) and is shown as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A bowl barrow, 39ft diameter and 3.5ft high situated 1.25 miles west of Godmanstone church. Listed under bowl barrows by Grinsell but described as a "Cairn, 15 paces diameter and 3ft high". <3> <5>

A bowl barrow, 15.0m diameter and 1.3m high is under the plough which has revealed a heavy flint content. No trace of ditch. <4>

Reduced by ploughing to a spread of flint some 16m in diameter and 0.2m high. Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

A low sub-circular mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs on the east side of Magiston Hill, Godmanstone <7-9>. The feature is recorded as a Bronze Age bowl barrow (NRHE Hob UID 453144) and is shown as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map <1>. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is still visible on 2010 Google Earth imagery <10>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 64529781) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 121 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(7) BOWL BARROW, 1¼ m. W. of the church, is 39 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high.'

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 02-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 24-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1376-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16870.

<8> Royal Air Force, 21-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0215-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16880.

<9> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-71, RAF/39/3829 V 0033-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16884.

<10> Google Earth, XX-XXX-2010, Google Earth 2010 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16568.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453144 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 28 2023 2:04PM