Monument record MDO79 - Bowl barrow on West Hill, Alton Pancras

Bowl barrow. In 1978 this monument was recorded as being around 12 metres in diameter, slightly distorted by close ploughing, with a mound about 1.2 metres high.

A ditchless bowl-barrow that has been dug into on the south side. <1>

14 Paces diam, 3ft 6ins high, smothered in bushes. <3>

A bowl-barrow, 36 feet diameter and 3 1/2 feet high. <4>

At ST 70620250 in arable farmland lies a small ditchless bowl barrow 10.0m north south by 12.0m east-west, and up to 1.2m high. Though ploughed up to its margin, the barrow remains grass covered, and undisturbed. Visible on OS air photographs. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 11-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

A ditchless bowl-barrow that has been dug into on the south side.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 85 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 70620250) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 4 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(17) Bowl (70620250) on West Hill at about 690 ft. O.D., covered with thick scrub; diam. about 36 ft., ht. 3½ ft.’

<5> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 B 12-OCT-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<5.1> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/033-34 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17442.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201988 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 13 2022 2:20PM