Monument record MDO4367 - Bowl barrow, Milborne St Andrew

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 90 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. The possible site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal mound on aerial photographs. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

'A' - SY 81059676; One of three grass covered and ditchless bowl barrows varying from 18 metres to 32 metres in diameter and from 0.5 metres to 0.6 metres high. <1>

One of three round barrows on Milborne Down, all of which have been heavily ploughed.
'A' - (Barrow 25) - SY 81049676. A Bowl barrow, about 90 feet in diameter and 1 1/2 ft high. (The barrow is not listed by Grinsell). <3>

'A'. SY 81049676. Bowl barrow, diameter 25.0 metres, approximately, height 0.8 metres, in arable and ploughed down. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

One of three bowl barrows situated on a north facing slope of Milborne Down, to the northeast of Weatherby Castle hillfort obelisk. The barrow is part of a dispersed group of barrows on this ridge, aligned broadly northwest to southeast. It is visible as an earthwork. <5>

The possible site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs (7). The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an internal mound are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery (8).

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-NOV-1954 (Unpublished document).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

'(25) Bowl barrow, diam about 90 ft, ht 1½ ft.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 20-MAY-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 19-SEP-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1457288 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> J R Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3305/9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20759.

<8> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 2:15PM