Monument record MDO307 - Bowl barrow on Chalbury, Bincombe

This barrow was 20 paces in diameter and 4 feet in height. Either 37 or 38 (a cairn) was opened by C Warne, it contained 2 urns (hopelessly crushed) with burnt bones. <2>

Two round barrows situated within Chalbury hill-fort: B-SY 69518384. A bowl barrow, 65 ft diameter x 4 ft high. <3>

'B' SY 69508385. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.5m, height 1.7m. No visible ditch. Both barrows have been dug into and mutilated. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

One of two Bronze Age bowl barrows lying within Chalbury hillfort, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <6-8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), 31 No 4 (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 440 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(74) Bowl (SY 68 SE; 69518384) 50 yds. S.S.E. of (73). Diam. 65 ft., ht. 4 ft.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 534 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.5m, ht. 1.7m. No visible ditch. In permanent pasture. 1/2/B

<6> 06-MAR-2003, NMR SY6983/12-15 (23002/01-4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11967.

<7> 2006, LiDAR D0059947 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11966.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3242 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11964.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452694 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 7:11PM