Monument record MDO7443 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ailwood Down Group, Corfe Castle

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

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 444 (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 25 (Index). SDO147.

‘Bowl barrow. Diam.8.2m and Ht.0.3m. A faint rise crossed N-S by a fence. West of this the mound lies within heathland and is grass covered. It has been constructed over the ditch of the long barrow. East of the fence the mound lies on managed grassland and the lower height of the barrow indicates plough damage although this is not severe. OS SY98SE5 RAF/VAP/1821:2403. 1/3/D.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 47 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

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