Monument record MDO7847 - Bowl barrow on Old Knowle, Moreton

A bowl barrow, one of three barrows on a prominent natural knoll. In 1970 this monument was recorded as around 41 feet in diameter with a mound 6 feet high, surrounded by a ditch.

Three round barrows, damaged by tree-felling, are situated on Old Knowle: … `B' Ditched bowl (79938778) 55 yds E of (A). Diam 41 ft, ht 6 ft, with ditch 8 ft wide. <3> `B' SY 79938778. Ditched bowl-barrow; flat-topped and well preserved. Diameter 18.5m overall, height 2.4m. Ditch 3.0m wide and 0.6m deep. Published Surveys (1:2500) revised on MSD. <4> The Bronze Age barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <6-7>. The barrow is sub-circular and surrounded by a narrow ditch. It measures 13 m in diameter. The barrow forms a group with two others (see linked records). This site was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. A bell barrow and two bowl barrows situated on a natural hill known as Old Knowle. The bell barrow is situated on the western side of the group. It has a central mound composed of sand, earth and turf, with maximum dimensions of 25 metres in diameter and approximately 3 metres in height. The mound has a hollow 6 metres by 7 metres on the top, which may indicate antiquarian excavation. The mound is surrounded by a berm and a ditch from which material was quarried for the construction of the mound. The ditch is visible as a depression 7 metres wide, although it is partly overlain by a later bank which may represent a tree clump enclosure. The two bowl barrows are situated to the east of the bell barrow and are aligned north west by south east. The north western bowl barrow has a mound with maximum dimensions of 16 metres in diameter and approximately 2 metres in height. This is surrounded by a quarry ditch 2 metres wide and approximatey 0.35 metres deep. The south eastern bowl barrow has a mound 8 metres in diameter and approximately 0.8 metres high. This is known to be surrounded by a quarry ditch visible in the 1960s. The ditch has since become infilled but will survive as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide. <8>

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