Monument record MDO8251 - Bowl barrow, West Lulworth

A bowl barrow recorded as being around 36 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. Visible as a very slight rise on aerial photographs taken in 1946.

A small bowl barrow. <2>

A mound covered with a dense growth of furze, causing measurements to be approximate. The diameter is approx: 9.0m., and its height 0.3m. There is no sign of a berm or a ditch, and no surface finds were made at the site. A bowl barrow. <3>

SY 83188203. Bowl (?) barrow, about 36ft. diameter and 1ft. high on almost level ground. <4>

SY 83133203. Bowl (?) barrow, ploughed almost flat; diameter 10.0m. approximately,height 0.2m. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A bowl barrow recorded as being around 36 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. The mound is visible as a very slight rise on aerial photographs taken in 1946 <8>, it was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 83188203) Tumulus

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 10-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 20-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 31-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 446 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(47) Bowl (?) (SY 88 SW; 83188203) on almost level ground above 400 ft. Diam. about 36 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2431-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13753.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455570 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 4:02PM