Monument record MDO992 - Bowl barrow on Whitelands Down, Dewlish

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of two mounds shown on the 1811 Ordnance Survey map. The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

SY 76799859. A truncated bowl barrow. Diameter 13 paces, height 2ft. <1>

SY 76799861. A grass covered bowl barrow with a scatter of exposed flints and a flat top with slightly sunken centre. Diameter 17.0m, height 0.5m taken to the west. <2>

Barrow? (76799859), near the summit of Whitelands Down (S) on a gentle N slope, has been heavily ploughed and is now an irregular mound, apparently dug away on the E side; two mounds are shown at this point on the 1811 OS map; diam about 50ft ht 2ft. <5>

SY 76799861. Ploughed down bowl barrow in pasture. Diameter 16.0m., height 0.5m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. There is no visible evidence of a second barrow in the vicinity. <6>

The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery <8> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project. Traces of an external ditch are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs on the western side <9>.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<2> JCS, Field investigator's comments JCS, F1 JCS 01-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO20001.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 104 (Monograph). SDO132.

'LVG. Truncated.'

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY76799861) Tumulus (NR)

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 89 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(18) Barrow? (76799859), near the summit of Whitelands Down (S.) on a gentle N. slope, has been heavily ploughed and is now an irregular mound, apparently dug away on the E. side; two mounds are shown at this point on the 1811 O.S. map; diam. About 50 ft., ht. 2 ft.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 20-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454488 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

<9> J R Boyden, 22-JUN-1976, JRB 3087/16 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20864.

Record last edited

Aug 11 2024 4:11PM