Monument record MDO43 - Barrow in White Hill Plantation, Abbotsbury

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated in woodland. In 1959 this monument was reported as being around 29 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high. It is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1968.

A bowl barrow; diameter 13 paces, height 2 1/2 ft. (Not mentioned by RCHM). <2>

A bracken covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch, situated in plantation of conifers. The barrow has a diameter of 12.0m,
and a height of 0.6m. <3>

SY 58308642. Abbotsbury 19. Grinsell recorded this barrow as 13 paces in diameter and 2½ feet in height. <4>

SY 583864. Round barrow in White Hill Plantation, Scheduled. <5>

A small bowl barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs within White Hill Plantation. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 58298643) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 139 (Index). SDO12304.

<7> 01-FEB-1968, MAL 6804 048-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11640.

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450405 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 4 2023 10:11AM