Monument record MDO728 - Bowl barrow on Green Hill, Cerne Abbas

One of five Bronze Age bowl barrows nearly in a line on a spur of the hill. In 1952 this monument, the most northerly, was reported as being around 20 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. The feature is visible as a sub-circular banked earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

A group of round barrows and mounds on a spur of Green Hill.
A (i), (ii), B,C and F ploughed down: D and R ploughed out.
A (i): 14.2m. diameter, 0.3m. high.
A (ii): 10.8m. Diameter, 0.2m. High.
B: 12.5m. Diameter, 0.8m high.
C: 12.8m. Diameter, 0.8m. High.
F: 9.9m. Diameter, 0.7m. High; correctly positioned on OS 1:2500 plan at SY 67059935. (The NG Refs of D, E and F in 1955 were approximated from a Co. Series 6" - see Concordance Card).
Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

The feature is visible as a sub-circular banked earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle 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.

‘(37) BARROWS, on a spur of Green Hill 1 m. S.S.E. of the church, are five in number and nearly in a line. The northernmost (a) is 20 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 03-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1964 (Map). SDO18020.

(Centred SY 671994) Mounds(NR) two shown
Tumulus(NR) three shown
Tumuli (NR) two shown

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 11-DEC-80 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452822 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 2:24PM