Monument record MDO406 - Bowl Barrow north of Forty Acre Plantation, Bradford Peverell

Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, on which a large central pit can be seen. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 75 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. This barrow is though to have been opened in 1880 by antiquarian Edward Cunnington, who found ashes, presumably the remains of a cremation burial.

Three round barrows north of Forty Acre Plantation opened by E Cunnington in 1880 and 1887. <3> 'B' - SY 66619178. Bowl barrow (RCHM No 15b; Grinsell No 27) circa 75 ft diameter and 2 ft high, presumably Cunnington's barrow No 13 which contained ashes only. <5> 'B' - Bowl barrow, 35.0 m diameter and 0.7 m high and in same condition as 'A'. <4> Two beakers and one fragment (Corpus Nos 173-4) listed by Clarke. In Dorset County Museum, Dorchester Acc Nos 1884.9.98a and 99. <6> 'A' and 'B' have been ploughed down and their slopes now merge with the surrounding pasture. 'A' is approximately 26.0 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high, and 'B' 25.5 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. 'C', a tree and ivy covered bell barrow, measures 21.4 metres overall with traces of an outer ditch. It has been trenched across its centre with a later foxhole on its north side; it is otherwise as described and measured by Authority (4) (see ground photograph). Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <7> Bell Barrow located at SY 6649 9174 and 2 bowl barrows located at SY 6661 9177 and SY 6667 9181situated on a ridge overlooking the Frome valley and near part of the cosurse of a Roman aquaduct which once supplied water to Dorchester. The bell barrow is 1 metre in height and 20 metres in diameter. It was partially excavated by E Cunnington in 1887 and a burnt burial and ashes were discovered. The bowl barrows are both 0.5 metres in height and 30 metres in diameter. Cunnington excavated these in 1880 and found ashes in the western mound and a sketelon with 2 beakers in the eastern mound which were on display in the Dorset County Museum.<8> Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The barrow is 26m across and appears to have a large central pit. <9-10>

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