Monument record MDO7695 - Bowl barrow in Great Plantation, East Stoke

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork mound surrounded by an outer ditch on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery of Great Plantation, East Stoke. N 1970 this monument was described as a bowl barrow around 70 feet in diameter with a mound about 6 feet high, and encircled by a ditch 8 feet wide.

A large bowl barrow. <2>

A mound 23.0 metres diameter and 1.8 metres high. There is no visible berm, but a surrounding ditch averages 1.5 metres wide, and 0.3 metres deep. The mound, which lies upon heathland, is flattened on top, but densely overgrown with bushes, trees and heather. No surface finds were made during field perambulation in the vicinity. <3>

SY 860885. Round barrow on Great Plantation. Scheduled. <5>

SY 85838832. Bowl barrow in dense rhododendron bushes, which prevented any measurements. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. from measurements above (3). <6>

A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 22.3m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork mound surrounded by an outer ditch on aerial photographs <8> and Lidar imagery <9> of Great Plantation, East Stoke. This feature was plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 85838832) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 18-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 452 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘All twenty-one barrows lie on heathland to N. and S. of the Frome, eleven in two groups. That on West Holme Heath is a good example of a linear group related to only a slight ridge. Many have been damaged by military activity. A completely excavated example on Chick’s Hill (22) produced a primary cremation in a globular urn. In another small barrow at Highwood, now unidentifiable but possibly one of (21-5), were three inverted urns with cremations at a depth of 2 ft. (Hutchins I, 413). . . . (39) Ditched bowl (SY 88 NE; 85848833) on level site. Diam. 70 ft., ht. 6 ft., with ditch 8 ft. wide.’

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 63 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-MAY-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> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

<9> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455113 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 11:39AM