Monument record MDO4464 - Bowl barrow in Ruins Plantation, Milton Abbas

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was recorded as being around 50 feet in diameter with a mound about 5½ feet high, with traces of a surrounding ditch. The barrow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Impenetrable. Dense vegetation. 1954. <2>

This site is situated in a wood with dense bramble and nettle growth. Attempts to find and measure the mound were unsuccessful. <3>

A tree covered bowl barrow with a diameter of 16.0m. and a height of 1.3m. with possible traces of an intermittent and unsurveyable ditch. The centre of the mound has been gutted and pulled out to the NE leaving a central hollow 6.5m. diameter and 1.5m. deep. <4>

ST 78850200. Bowl barrow in Ruins plantation. Diameter 50 ft, height 5 1/2ft. With traces of a ditch. <5>

ST 78860199. Milton Abbas 4. Bowl barrow listed. <6>

ST 788020. Round barrow in Ruins Plantation. Scheduled. <7>

The barrow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project. (EA 2023)

National Record of the Historic Environment, 201866 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

(ST 78850200) Tumulus

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F2 JR 20-FEB-56 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 200 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(32) Bowl (78850200), 635 yds. N.E. of (31) in Ruins Plantation, retains traces of a ditch. Diam. 50 ft., ht. 5½ ft.’

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> DOE, 1978, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978, 66 (Scheduling record). SDO17448.

<8> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 01/08/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<9> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2025 6:51PM