Bokerley Down

Also known as:
Monument No. 213535, Pentridge 20 and Pentridge I
Nearest town:
Wilton (13km NNE)
OS reference:
SU042188
OS sheet:
184
Latitude:
50° 58' 4.87 N
Longitude:
1° 56' 24.65 W
Added to TMA by

Images

Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Note that the wheat field, centre of image, covers the remains of the north-eastern terminus of The Dorset Cursus. Blimey!

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 11, 2011
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

From south-west.... note the southern apex of the barrow is heavily overgrown.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 11, 2011
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Fox damage to the long barrow? Sophisticated creatures, these, deploying barbed wire.....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 11, 2011
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Looking north down the long barrow; note further long barrows standing to the right of, and within, the central cops of trees. The north-eastern terminus of the Dorset Cursus sits within wheat to the immediate left of this copse.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 11, 2011
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Long barrows are all about the sky, methinks. Looking southwards up this fine monument.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 11, 2011
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Approaching from the stile with ‘Private’ carved into its flank. He who dares, Rodders.... or she.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 11, 2011
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by formicaant

The barrow with Blagdon hill in the background.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 17/09/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Sep 17, 2007
Image of Bokerley Down (Long Barrow) by formicaant

The long barrow from the west, Bokerley dyke is behind me.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 17/09/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Sep 17, 2007

Articles

Bokerley Down

formicaant
formicaant Sep 17, 2007

This is a really nice pear shaped long barrow. It is to the south of the eastern terminal of the great Dorset Cursus. It is to the west of Bokerley dyke and is oriented north/south.

Miscellaneous

Bokerley Down
Long Barrow
Chance
Chance Jun 5, 2014

(’A’ – SU 04151877 & ‘B’ – SU 04191871) Tumuli (NR) (One long barrow and one round barrow) (’C’ – SU 04171870) Earthwork (NR). On Bokerly Down is a small enclosure 15 yds square, with a low vallum, the enclosed area being raised to the top of the bank. In the south west there is a possible entrance. Situated near a tumulus and a long mound. (2)
(’A’) A fine long barrow, over 300 ft long. (3)
‘A’ is a long barrow some 80.0m in length by 14.0m in width and up to 2.4m in height at its southern or ‘business’ end. It is orientated almost due north to south and both side ditches are visible.
‘B’ is a bowl barrow 17.5m in diameter by 0.6m in height. There are very faint traces of a ditch on the south side.
‘C’ now appears as a slightly raised square platform some 17.5m square and up to about 0.7m in height. No trace of a ditch or an entrance is now visible. Its probable original form can be clearly seen on air photograph 240 by A Keiller, where it appears to be a square enclosure with slight bank and outer ditch. But no entrance.

Long Barrow (SU 04161876), on Bokerley Down lies on the north slope of a low spur and is aligned north north west – south south east on the north east end of the Cursus. Ploughing has largely obliterated the side ditches and has damaged the mound; it is now 300 ft long, and 60 ft across and 8 ft high at the south east end, but narrower and lower at the north west end.
Bowl (SU 04201871), close to the south east end of long barrow; diameter 45 ft, height 1 1/2 ft. (5)
Pentridge 43 [’C’] SU 04181869 Small square enclosure, length of side 15.5 to 18.5m, immediately S of long barrow. Aligned NE-SW; labelled ‘enclosure’ on some OS maps and drawn as scarped square; Crawford described as ‘platform’ surrounded by slight ditch (Crawford and Keiller 1928). (6-7)

NB this record now deals solely with the long barrow. The round barrow (SU 01 NW 211) and the square feature (SU 01 NW 212) have now been recorded separately.

Miscellaneous

Bokerley Down
Long Barrow
Chance
Chance Jun 5, 2014

Details of long barrow on Pastscape

A long barrow, listed by RCHME as Pentridge 20 and by Grinsell as Pentridge I. Located on Bokerley Down, it is aligned north northwest-south southeast, the northerly end pointing towards the northeastern terminal of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41) circa 350 metres to the north. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1969 described the barrow as a mound circa 80 metres in length and 14 metres in width, standing up to 2.4 metres in height at its southern “business” end. Both side ditches were still visible as surface features. A round barrow (SU 01 NW 211) and a small sqaure feature (SU 01 NW 212) are located immediately to the south.

Sites within 20km of Bokerley Down

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.