Monument record MDO7041 - Bowl barrow on Stoborough Heath, Arne

Tumulus (NR) (Three times) (A - SY 93078481 : B - SY 9307 8465 : C - SY 92988449). (1)

Three Bowl Barrows. (2)

'A' is a rather poorly shaped bowl barrow with diameter of 17.0m and a height of 1.5m with no surrounding ditch. Heather covered with no apparent signs of mutilation. 'B' has a diameter of 22.0m and a max height of 2.4m. and has no surrounding ditch. A hollow in the top has a diameter of 3.0m and is 0.4m deep. A
small portion at the Eastern base has been cut away.
A heather and gorse covered Bowl Barrow.
'C' Is a badly mutilated bowl barrow. A trench in the East
measures 4.0m long and 1.8m wide and appears to have been cut
for soil extractions and not excavation. It is badly pitted all
over and now serves as a rubbish dump.
The barrow has a diameter of 16.5m and is 1.4m high and has no
surrounding ditch.
A.B.C. Bowl Barrows. (3)

'A'. Bowl barrow on almost level site. Diameter 55ft. Height
5 1/2 feet.
'B'. Bowl barrow. Diameter 65 feet, height 8 feet.
Excavation in centre and on east.
'C'. Bowl barrow on almost level site, crossed by parish boundary
with Church Knowle. Diameter 54 feet, height 4 1/2 feet. Dug into
on top. (4)

Round barrows at SY 931847 on Stoborough Heath.
Scheduled. (5)
'A'. SY 93078480. Arne 18.
'B'. SY 93078465. Arne 17.
'C'. SY 92988450. Arne 21.
Three bowl barrows listed. 'C' is on the Church Knowle boundary. (2)

These widely spaced three round barrows are submerged under
dense impenetrable gorse; although detailed inspection was
impossible they appear not to have suffered serious depredation
since the report of 1970 (4).

Published 1:2500 survey accepted. (6)


Bowl barrow diameter 55 feet, hight 5.5 feet.[1] The barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (3). It is 17m across and was ditially plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 435 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(41) Bowl (SY 98 SW; 93078481) on almost level site. Diam. 55 ft., ht. 5½ ft.’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, pp 86-7 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Air Force, 10-FEB-1945, RAF 106G/LA/128 7058-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13468.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 83 (Index). SDO147.

‘A low rise situated on heathland, bracken and heather covered. 1/2/B.’

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 59 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, 04/05/1986 (Unpublished document). SDO16261.

<7> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 07/08/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 12:11PM