Monument record MDO4377 - Bowl barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Milborne St Andrew

The probable site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and 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.

A group of round barrows on Deverel Down in Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Whitechurch parishes. 'F' - SY 82249929. Bowl barrow, 45 ft diameter and 2 1/2 ft high has been spread by ploughing. There are traces of a ditch. (RCHM Milborne St Andrew No 35; Grinsell's Milborne No 9). <2-3>

SY 822993. Group of six round barrows on Deverell Down. Scheduled. (This group undoubtably includes some of the barrows at SY 821991 - See SY 89 NW 16). <4>

'F'. SY 82259928. Bowl barrow, diameter 15.0 metres, height 1.2 metres. There are vague and unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs <7> and 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>.

XX-XXX-2017, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO20777.

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

(Centred SY 822993) Tumuli (NR) (five shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 120-1 (Monograph). SDO132.

<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.

‘(35) Bowl (82249929), 40 yds. E.S.E. of (34), has been spread by ploughing. Diam. 45 ft., ht. 2½ ft. Traces of ditch.’

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 66 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455857 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> National Monuments Record, 21-APR-1976, NMR 926/424-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20778.

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

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:25PM