Monument record MDO4535 - Bowl Barrow on Bell Hill, Okeford Fitzpaine

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Summary

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 33 feet in diameter with a mound one foot high, and much ploughed. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and very faintly still on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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(B) Bowl (80380875) has been much ploughed. Diam. 33 ft., ht. 1 ft. <1>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and very faintly still on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project (RAF 1947; EA 2018).


Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4170 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21602.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 207 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(46) Bowl (80380875), 70 yds. N.E. of (45), has been much ploughed. Diam. 33 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205563 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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  • --- Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. xx-xxx-2018. Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M.
  • --- Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-JAN-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4170.
  • <1> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2. 2. 207.
  • <2> Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 205563.

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Location

Grid reference ST 8038 0875 (point)
Map sheet ST80NW
Civil Parish Okeford Fitzpaine; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Other Statuses/References

  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 2 042 046
  • Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: ST 80 NW 15
  • Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 205563
  • Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Okeford Fitzpaine 46

Record last edited

Dec 18 2025 2:57PM

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