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.The barrow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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>

The barrow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project. (EA 2023)

Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

<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 Barrett, G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments GB, F1 GB 04-OCT-78 (Unpublished document).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> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 201993 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 24 2026 5:04PM