Monument record MDO7977 - Bronze Age round barrow, Godlingston Heath, Studland

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on Godlingston Heath. The barrow measures approximately 18 m in diameter. The barrow is scheduled in a group together with five others (see linked records). (2) These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Papworth, M, 1989, Six barrows on Godlingston Heath, Studland. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 110 for 1988, 144 (Article in serial). SDO20920.

‘During survey work on the Corfe Castle Estate a group of six previously unrecorded barrow mounds was identified on Godlingston Heath.
They lie on a flat topped knoll 65m OD which has been cut into by clay pits on the north and south sides. Two ore more of the mounds are visible from nearly all directions on the surrounding heath, and from the Studland sand dunes to the north-east a line of five can be seen on the horizon. The barrows are heather covered and undamaged apart from a number of rectangular pits, average size 1.5m by 0.7m by 0.5m deep, which cut three of the mounds and appear to be military trenches of the 1940s. Five of the barrows form a curve aligned north to south with the sixth barrow lying north-east of the southernmost mound. Each mound is less than 5m from its neighbour. None of these bowl barrows has a visible berm or ditch. The national grid references and dimensions of each of the barrows are as follows … SZ00648306 18.0m diameter, 1.5m high.’

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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