Monument record MDO4373 - Bowl barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Milborne St Andrew

An elongated mound, thought possibly to be a Bronze Age bowl barrow. The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

'C' - SY 82029905. An elongated mound, 0.2m high and approx 12.0m north east - south west by approx 9.0m north west - south east. The mound may be a possible barrow but it occurs at the junction of a lynchet and field bank and may be nothing more than a lynchet platform. <2>

'C' - (31) - SY 82019906. Bowl barrow, about 40ft diameter and 9 ins high in an area of recent ploughing. Grinsell lists all three barrows as bowl-type. <3-4>

'C' SY 82039905. An elongated low mound, 12.0 by 6.0 metres, height 0.2 metres. Possibly the remains of a barrow.
'A' and 'B' resurveyed, and 'C' Surveyed, at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery <6> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455870 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 82169911; 'B' - SY 82269915) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 16-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 182 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(31) Bowl barrow. Diam. about 40 ft, ht 9 ins.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Jul 22 2024 6:57PM