Monument record MDO7142 - Rawles Barrow, Bere Regis

A mound interpreted as a probable bowl barrow. The first recorded use of the name 'Rawles Barrow' was in 1777. In 1970 this monument was described as a low oval mound 99 feet by 72 feet, and heavily ploughed. The barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

(SY 85709620) "Site of "Rawles Barrow" (?Tumulus)". <1>

SY 85699621. A near circular mound, 27.0 metres, diameter, 0.9 metres high taken to the north. Situated on an eastern slope and under pasture. Possibly a bowl barrow but it has more the appearance of a natural rise. No trace of a ditch or excavation. No information regarding the name 'Rawles Barrow' was obtained during field investigation. <2>

SY 85719621. 'Rawles Barrow', (shown on I. Taylor's estate map 1777), bowl (?) barrow adjoining hedge on west side of road, is now a low oval mound 99ft. By 72ft. And heavily ploughed. <3>

Rawles Barrow (name unconfirmed) is under crop but appears to be the end of a natural ridge, which may of course have once supported a barrow, since destroyed. There is nothing on air photographs. <4>

The barrow is visible as a low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <7>

<1> Rivet, A L F, Annotated record map 6" (Map). SDO17443.

<1.1> DCM, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 Dorset Co Museum (Anon udt.) (Map). SWX2335.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 15-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> 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.

‘(113) Rawles Barrow (1777), bowl (?) (SY 89 NE; 85719621). On S.E. slope below 200 ft., adjoining hedge on W. side of road. Now low oval mound 99 ft. by 72 ft., and heavily ploughed.’

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 28-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<4.1> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-1980, OS 80/021 222-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18284.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455731 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Jun 22 2023 10:12AM