Monument record MDO1694 - Bowl barrow, Melcombe Horsey

A bowl barrow recorded as a low mound about 54 feet in diameter and heavily ploughed. This barrow may have been investigated by an antiquarian, who described finds of 'fragmented British pottery' and what seems to have been a Roman burial inserted into the mound.

A bowl barrow, 54 feet in diameter and 1 1/2 feet high. Has been heavily ploughed. <2>

Possibly the barrow opened by C Hall (ST 70 SW 56). <3>

Much ploughed bowl barrow: diameter 12.0m and up to 0.5m high. There is no visible ditch. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

(ST 744016) Two barrows shown, aligned north to south <5>.

Faint circular cropmark visible at ST 74390180 <6>. <5-6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 74460167) Tumulus

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 175 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(118) Bowl (74460168), on a gentle W. slope below the crest of Hog Hill, at about 650 ft. above O.D., has been heavily ploughed. Diam. 54 ft., ht. 1½ ft.'

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 119 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 06-DEC-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 1 Inch to 1 mile, 1811 (Map). SDO17506.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 15-MAY-1974, OS 74/058/121 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17588.

<6.1> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/122-23 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17545.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202079 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2022 1:55PM