Monument record MDO7997 - Round Barrow in the Ballard Down Group, Ballard Down, Swanage

Bronze Age round barrow, one of a group on Ballard Down, disturbed and reduced by ploughing. This barrow lies on the Swanage/Studland parish boundary and has a boundary stone on top.

SZ 03028127. Generally as described by Author 2 but N half now ploughed out. The S half lies on National Trust land and seems no longer at risk. Surveyed at 1:1000 and 1:2500 scales. <1>

SZ 03038127 Bowl (?)barrow, 24ft diameter and 2ft high with boundary stone on the top. <3>

Bowl Barrow, 9 paces diameter and 1 1/2ft high situated on Swanage/Studland parish boundary. Visited by L V Grinsell. <4>

<1> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F3 CFW 16-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 453 (Monograph). SDO150.

(W) BALLARD DOWN GROUP (SZ 08 SW). Five small bowls close together within 500 ft. ring contour on spine of steep-sided chalk ridge. The area, built on and disturbed in the 1940s and now almost levelled by ploughing, contians numerous slight rises similarly marked by concentrations of stone rubble, making identification of barrows recorded here very difficult. (86-8) are corssed by the parish boundary with Studland. The following are reasonably certain:
(88) Bowl (?) (03038127). 260 yds. E. of (87). Diam. 24 ft., ht. 2 ft. Boundary stone on top.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 304 (Index). SDO147.

Probable bowl barrow, diam. 7.4 m and ht. 0.3 m. Faint swelling crossed E-W by a fence. Grass covered but badly ploughed down. OS SZ08SW24.
7/7/D TWA/IOP/1985

<5> Papworth, M, 1992, Whitecliff Farm, Purbeck, Dorset, Wessex Region, 11 (Unpublished document). SWX1387.

One of a group of five barrows on Ballard Down, it is crossed by a fence boundary with a boundary stone on top (see 112131). An irregular oval mound 7.5m dia. And 0.3 high with a track running parallel with the fence to the south.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457624 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 14 2023 6:41PM