Monument record MDO42837 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Hog Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton

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Summary

A sub circular banked mound is visible as an earthwork and cropmark on aerial photographs on Hog Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton. The feature is recorded as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map and is probably a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project. The barrow is a Scheduled Monument (1003228).

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(SY 62189676) Tumulus (NR) (1) SY 62199673. A bowl barrow, 60ft diameter by 2.5ft high situated on Hog Cliff Hill. Listed by Grinsell as a "Cairn, or stone heap". (2,3) A grass-covered bowl barrow, 17.0m diameter by 0.8m high. No trace of ditch or excavation. (4) An oval grass covered flinty bowl barrow at SX 62179676 which measures 16.5m by 11.2m and 0.5m high. (See GP). Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (5)

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  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map 6in. 6 inch to 1 mile. 1903.
  • <3> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 22-JAN-48. RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4272-3.
  • <4> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England. 1952. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West). 153.
  • <5> Unpublished document: Swatridge, G C. Various. Field Investigators Comments GCS. F1 GCS 14-JAN-55.
  • <6> Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows.
  • <7> Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 18-APR-69. OS69114/049.
  • <8> Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Records. SY 69 NW 8.
  • <9> Unpublished document: Attrill, N J. Field Investigators Comments NJA. F2 NJA 12-FEB-81.
  • <10> Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 453053.

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Location

Grid reference SY 6217 9676 (point) (3 map features)
Map sheet SY69NW
Civil Parish Maiden Newton; Dorset

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Other Statuses/References

  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 1 069 016
  • Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 69 NW 8
  • Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 453053
  • Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Maiden Newton 16

Record last edited

Apr 12 2022 2:47PM

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