Monument record MDO7429 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ailwood Down Group, Corfe Castle

National Record of the Historic Environment, 456762 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 98 SE 5L (Index). SDO131.

<2> 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.

‘Seventeen bowl barrows and a long barrow on summit and South shoulder of part of Purbeck Hills, here over 600 ft above O.D. Ten form an irregular W.N.W – E.S.E line only 250 yards long on the summit while the rest including the long barrow, lie on slightly lower ground immediately to the South. Only the two highest barrows have continuous ditches. Some others have quarry pits, probably original. All are under turf. One, unidentified, but adjacent contained a cremation.’

<2> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 11 (Index). SDO147.

‘Bowl Barrow. Diam 7.6m and Ht 0.3m. Situated on heathland, the mound is grass and gorse covered with an E-W sheep path eroding the top of the barrow. Visible as a faint rise with an uneven top. OS SY98SE5. Also RAF/VAP/ 1821:2403. 1/2/C.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 41 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

A bowl barrow, part of a group of seventeen round barrows and a long barrow. It is visible as a faint rise 7.5m dia. and 0.3m high. To the west is a shallow quarry 8m dia. of irregular plan and possibly the source of the material for the mound. There is no visible ditch around the mound. There is no visible ditch around the mound. The site lies immediately to the south of 112,151 on a gentle south slope just below the crest of the chalk ridge. Nine barrows are shown on Woodwards map (1775). A cremation burial was found in one of the barrows in this group (Miles 1826). This land has been downland since at least 1585 (Treswell) and appears never to have been ploughed.

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