Monument record MDO7097 - Bronze Age round barrow, South Heath, Bere Regis

A Bronze Age round barrow is visble as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery. It is one of two round barrows identified at this location on South Heath, Bere Regis (MDO7096-97).

(A & B). Two large bowl barrows. No other details given. <2>

'B'. A mound of diameter 18.0 metres, and 2.0 metres high. No visible berm, but a ditch averages 1.2 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep. The mutilation to this bowl barrow is identical with that of 'A'. No surface finds were made in the vicinity of these barrows. <3>

'B' - (68) - SY 86208924. Bowl barrow, 58ft. diameter and 7ft. high, possibly ditched. Damaged by tanks. <4>

SY 862894. Two round barrows on South Heath. Scheduled. <5>

'B': SY 86188923. Bowl barrow, overall diameter 21.0 metres, with a ditch, 2.5 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep on all except the
north quadrant. Height 2.3 metres. Both barrows are on heathland have minor mutilations. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 15.1 m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <7-8> and Lidar imagery <9>. It is one of two round barrows identified at this location on South Heath, Bere Regis (MDO7096-97). This feature was plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

('A': SY 86168925; 'B': SY 86188922) Tumuli (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 18-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 436 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(68) Bowl (SY 88 NE; 86208924) 35 yds. S.E. of (67). Diam. 58 ft., ht. 7 ft. Possibly ditched. Damaged by tanks.'

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 60 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5060-61 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13184.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 25-APR-1968, NMR OS/68078 051-52 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13185.

<9> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<10> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, F52/71/4 (Index). SDO14738.

VIEW OF BARROWS FROM NORTH-WEST - DAMAGED BY TANKS

<12> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F71/4 (Index). SDO14738.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455103 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

BARROWS FROM NORTH WEST.

<14> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455103 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 17 2023 4:17PM