Monument record MDO3436 - Bowl barrow, Woodsford

A mound interpreted as a probable bowl barrow, now ploughed almost flat. This monument is thought to be one of two barrows in the 'neighbourhood of Woodsford' investigated by the antiquarian Charles Warne, who found a number of urns in each mound. The site of Bronze Age barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs of 1947.

Situated in the parish of Woodsford (SY 7689). Two barrows excavated by Warne and numbered by him 44 and 45. The barrows were on heath brought into cultivation in Warne's time. No 44 contained twelve urns, some inverted, and mostly bucket or barrel type. Evidently Late Bronze Age. No 45 contained four Late Bronze Age urns. Fragments of a crushed globular urn (?from No 44 or 45) from Woodsford are in the Dorset County Museum . Situated some few hundred yards from the "Ancient British Village". <1-3> This monument is thought to be one of two barrows in the 'neighbourhood of Woodsford' investigated by the antiquarian Charles Warne, who found a number of urns in each mound. <3> Two barrows, Woodsford 1a and 1b, listed. Details as Authority 1. <4> These barrows were not identified during field investigation. <5> The site of Bronze Age barrow described is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs of 1947. The ring ditch measures 24 m in diameter. <7> A second ring ditch is located 22 m to the west (see MDO3435). This site was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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