Monument record MDO7378 - Bowl barrow, one of the Coombe Beacon Group, Coombe Keynes

A group of heather-covered round barrows on Coombe Beacon: 'E' SY 85968435. Bowl barrow, 15.0m. Diameter and 1.1m high with no trace of berm or ditch mutilated by rabbits. <1>

Coombe Beacon Group of six round barrows, including two probable bells: 'E'-(13)-SY 85978435. Bowl barrow, 43ft diameter and 3ft high with irregular surface. <4>

'E'. SY 85968435. Bowl barrow, diameter 14.0m., height 0.8m. To 1.2m. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

A low round mound, 12m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Combe Beacon <8-9>. It is one of a known Bronze Age barrow cemetery group. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project, it is not longer visible on most recent Google Erath imagery.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 09-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 102 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 860844) Tumuli (NR) (six shown)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 442 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘ Coombe Beacon Group (SY 88 SE). Six barrows, including two probable bells; (13–15) lie in a triangle and (16–18) in an almost straight line.
(13) Bowl (85978435) near summit of knoll 172 ft. above O.D. Diam. 43 ft., ht. 3 ft. Surface irregular.’

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 62 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 26-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4424-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13694.

<9> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0030-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13693.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455471 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2024 1:56PM