Monument record MDO7030 - Bronze Age round barrow, Worgret Hill, Arne

A possible Bronze Age round barrow, now converted into a tree-covered and revetted garden feature. A circular mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Worgret Hill, Arne. It is one of a group of dispersed barrows which make up the Worgret Heath group.

'A' Diameter 20.0 metres; height 1.7 metres. Flat topped with no sign of berm or ditch. Now an ornamented mound in the garden with brick steps up the S side, and planted with shrubs. A stone wall 0.7 metres high surrounds the foot of the mound. Probably a bowl barrow. <2>

The barrow forms an outlier of the Worgret Heath round barrow cemetery. <5>

A circular mound, approximately 18m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Worgret Heath, Arne <6>. It is considered likely to be the remains of the round barrow described above. It is one of a group of dispersed barrows which make up the Worgret Heath group. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 6in. Prov. Ed (Map). SWX2257.

(A-SY 90248701; 'B' SY 90538709) Tumuli (NR) (two shown)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 86 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 434 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘ Worgret Heath Group (SY 98 NW), nine barrows, including Wareham Lady St. Mary (82–4) of which (83) is a possible bell. On relatively high ground around the 100 ft. contour, though (31) is below it to the E. One barrow in this area, excavated in c. 1830 by Pennie and later destroyed, contained at least twenty-four Middle or Late Bronze Age urns, some holding cremations. Only one survives, in D.C.M. (Gentleman's Magazine (1838), pt. i, 303; Hutchins I, 108). … (30) Bowl (?) (90258701) 240 yds. E.S.E. of (29). Diam. about 40 ft., ht. about 4 ft. Converted into tree-covered and revetted garden feature.’

<5> English Heritage, 1996, County list of Scheduled Monuments : March 1996 (Scheduling record). SWX2762.

<6> Royal Air Force, 14-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA/194 236-38 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13435.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456654 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 27 2024 10:24AM