Monument record MDO4365 - Bowl barrow, Milborne St Andrew

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 55 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

Barrow 'C' - SY 81119656. One of three grass covered and ditchless bowl barrows varying from 18 metres to 32 metres in diameter and between 0.5 metres and 0.6 metres high. <1>

One of three round barrows on Milborne Down, all of which have been heavily ploughed.
Barrow 'C' - (23) - SY 81119658. Bowl barrow, about 55 feet in diameter and 1 1/2 ft high. (This barrow is not listed by Grinsell). <3>

Barrow 'C' is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <4> with a ditch. <5>

Barrow 'C'. SY 81119659. A Bowl barrow. It was not possible to inspect the barrow closely because of crops, but from a distance it was visible as a ploughed-down mound. Revised from RCHME measurements at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

One of three bowl barrows located on a north facing slope of Milborne Down, northeast of Weatherby Castle hillfort obelisk. These are part of a dispersed group of barrows on this ridge and one of three aligned broadly northwest to southeast. The barrow is visible as a slight earthwork. <7>

The site of this round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs taken in 1982 (9) is 16m across. Traces of an internal mound are visible as a low earthwork on lidar imagery (10). The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-NOV-1954 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 811965) Tumuli (NR) (three shown)

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 182 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(23) Bowl barrow, diam. about 55 ft, ht. 1½ ft.'

<4> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-1980, OS 80/021/229-30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19594.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 21-JAN-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 20-MAY-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 19-SEP-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455906 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<9> National Monuments Record, 30-MAR-1982, NMR 2110/1260 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20769.

<10> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 2:11PM