Monument record MDO4379 - Bowl barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Milborne St Andrew

The site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

A group of round barrows on Deverel Down in Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Whitechurch parishes. 'D' - SY 82289935. Bowl barrow, 42ft diameter and 5ft high, adjoins the hedge forming the parish boundary. The centre has been dug into and the whole mound has been badly damaged by rabbits. A modern track has destroyed the ditch on the south east. (RCHM Milborne St Andrews No 37; Grinsell's Milborne No 10).
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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>

'D' - SY 82289934. Bowl barrow, diameter of mound 14.0 metres; height 1.5 metres. A ditch is visible on the south-west side only, 7.0 metres wide and 0.7 metres deep. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site of this plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery <7> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

<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, 314 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(37) Bowl (82289935), 100 yds. E. of (36), adjoins the hedge forming the parish boundary with Winterborne Whitechurch. The centre has been dug into and the whole mound has been badly damaged by rabbits. A modern track has destroyed the ditch on the S.E. Diam. 42 ft., ht. 5 ft.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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

<7> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:23PM