Monument record MDO1949 - Bowl barrow on East Hill, Piddletrenthide, known as Cills Barrow

A bowl barrow with a mound which is 20m in diameter and a maximum of 0.6m high. It is located on a field boundary and to the west of the hedge it has been levelled by ploughing. Barrow known my muliple names including, Schilleburgh or Schilleburghe and Ceols Barrow.

A bowl-barrow that is almost ploughed out. Probably the "Schilleburghe" of a charter of AD 891. <2>

Situated at ST 70690090 on a ridge top in arable farmland are the remains of a once substantial barrow. It has been reduced by ploughing to a low ground swelling 20.0m east to west 18.0m north to south and up to 0.4m high.
Poorly defined on OS air photographs <4.1-4.2>. It was not possible to confirm the name "Schilleburghe".

Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

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

(ST 70690090) Tumulus

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 64, 124 (Monograph). SDO132.

Probably the Chellenberghe or Schilleburghe (Cill's or Ceola's barrow) of the Anglo Saxon Charters for Piddletrenthide and Buckland Newton.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 221 (Monograph). SDO136.

(52) Barrow ? (70690090), on the summit of East Hill on a gentle S. slope, over 500 ft. above O.D., is almost completely ploughed away.

<4> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 04-OCT-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<4.1> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/035, 035 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17560.

<4.2> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/036-37, 036 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17533.

<5> DCMS, 1996, Scheduled Monument Notification English Heritage Schedule Entry 18/11/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17558.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201993 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 6:53PM