Monument record MDO7420 - Bronze Age round barrow, Woodyhyde Farm, Corfe Castle

A circular mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of fields to the west of Woodyhyde Farm. It is considered likely to be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 61 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high, spread and irregular.

A mound, very distorted and ill-defined due to ploughing, which at present is approx. 20.0m. Diameter and maximum height of 0.6m. No trace of a ditch. <2>

SY 97148059. Bowl barrow, 24 paces diameter and 4 1/2ft high. <3>

SY 97148059. Mound, possible bowl barrow, about 61ft diameter and 3 1/2ft high although spread and irregular. <4>

SY 972806. Round barrow 500 yards north of Afflington Farm. Scheduled. <5>

A bowl barrow, spead NW/SE by ploughing, and now with diameters of 25m by 20m. It is situated on slight hillock with which it merges and the height of the mound is approximately 0.5m. From a distance a dark soil mark around the mound may represent a ditch, but this cannot be distinguished close to in the ploughed ground. Surveyed at 1:2500 on OS plan. The D.O.E. N.G. Reg obviously applies to this barrow. <7>

A circular mound, approximately 13.3m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of fields to the west of Woodyhyde Farm, Corfe Castle <10>. It is considered likely to be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck mapping project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 97148059) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 12-DEC-52 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 103 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 443 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Corfe Common Group (SY 98 SE; Fig. p. 97). Eight barrows straggle along the spine of a ridge about 150 ft. above O.D. All but (191) are bracken-covered. LVG 10a-c, between (192) and (193), are unidentifiable. … (194) Mound, possible bowl (SY 98 SE; 97148059). Diam. about 61 ft., ht. 3½ ft., though spread and irregular.’

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 62 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 41 (Index). SDO147.

‘Probable bowl barrow; mound diam. 18.6m and ht. 1.0m. Situated in a normally ploughed field in grass. Reduced and spread by ploughing. OS SY98SE1. 1/3/C.’

<7> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 21-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 97/H/19 (Index). SDO14738.

BARROW FROM NORTH-WEST - VERY DISTORTED AND ILL-DEFINED DUE TO EXTENSIVE PLOUGHING. Photographer: UNKNOWNDonor: UNKNOWNCopyright: UNKNOWN

<10> Royal Air Force, 10-FEB-1945, RAF 106G/LA/128 7063-64 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13673.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456781 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 16 2023 4:20PM