Monument record MDO7130 - Bowl barrow, Bere Regis

A bowl barrow on the slope of a ridge. In 1970 this monument was described as around 62 feet in diameter with a mound 1½ feet high. The barrow mound is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1976; it is 17m across and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A bowl barrow, 24 paces in diameter and 1 1/2ft high. Arable 1939, grass 1953. (2)

A bowl barrow 25.0 metres diameter, 0.9 metres high. No trace of ditch or excavation. Under grass. (3)

SY 83129714. Bowl barrow, 62ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high, ploughed and situated on the west slope of a ridge. (4)

SY 831971. Round barrow south of Horse Close Plantation. (5)

SY 83129714. Bowl barrow, diameter 23.0 metres approximately, height 0.8 metres. In arable and ploughed over. Broad ditch visible as a soil mark on air photograph. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (6)

The barrow mound is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1976 <8>; it is 17m across and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

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

(SY 83129713) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 15-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 437 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(101) Bowl (SY 89 NW; 83129714) on W. slope of ridge. Diam. 62 ft., ht. 1½ ft. Ploughed.'

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 60 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6.1> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-1980, OS/80021 V 161-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19664.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455940 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> John Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3305/22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19878.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:21PM