Monument record MDO1804 - Bowl barrow, Oborne

ST 653192. "Nearly certain this is a barrow". (1)

ST 65351923. A ditchless grass covered mound situated slightly below the crest of a hill. Diameter 22.0m, height to the west 0.3m, height to the east approx 1.3m. It is clearly an artificial feature and possibly a bowl barrow, but it lies in an area much disturbed by Medieval farming activities with a fairly large quarry excavation in the hillside to the south east. (2)

Not mentioned by Grinsell. (3)

No change since report of 21 7 55.

Mound surveyed at 1:2500 on AM at ST 65351923. (4)

The feature is visible as an earthwork on lidar and satellite imagery (EA 2022; GE 2014).

Google Earth, 2014, Google Earth 2014 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15450.

Environment Agency, 2022, LiDAR Composite Viewer - Digital Terrain Model 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO21777.

<1> Bean, C E, Annotated record map Corr 6", 4 July 1950 (Map). SDO16337.

<2> Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 21-JUL-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

<4> Allanson, Christopher David, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments CDA, R1 CDA 9-JUL-76 (Verbal communication). SDO17894.

<5> Phillips, A S, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments ASP, F1 ASP 24-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<6> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 199323 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 12 2026 9:39AM