Monument record MDO721 - Bowl barrow on Dickley Hill, Cerne Abbas

Bronze Age bowl barrow on Dickley Hill, recorded in 1952 as being 23 feet in diameter and 1½ feet high. The feature is visible as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Two bowl barrows with hollows in the centres:
'A' ST 65890027 Eight paces in diameter and 1 1/2ft in height. <1-3>

'A' ST 65880026 A grass-covered bowl barrow, 8.0m diameter and 0.7m in height, with no trace of a ditch. <2>

The area is now under pasture. The ditch of barrow 'B' has been destroyed and barrow 'C' has been erased by ploughing, otherwise measurements as in 1955. Published 1:2500 surveys of 'A' and 'B' revised. <5>

The feature is visible as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <7>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 84 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(34) SETTLEMENT and BARROW, on Dickley Hill over ¾ m. S.W. of the church. The settlement is defended on the E. side by a scarp, ditch and outer bank extending for over 200 yards and having an entrance towards the S. end. … About 150 yards to the E. of the entrance is a bowl barrow 23 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 05-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 65880026) Tumulus (NR)2

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 19-OCT-76 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198984 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Nov 1 2024 11:20AM