Monument record MDO3665 - Bowl Barrow on Charlton Down, Charlton Marshall

A bowl barrow. Traces of a trench can be seen across the top of the mound, and this may be one of three barrows on Charlton Down investigated by the antiquarian H White in 1811. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 40 feet in diameter with a mound 4½ feet high, and surrounded by a ditch six feet across and 1½ feet deep.

A bowl barrow with a surrounding ditch. No dimensions given. <2>

A grass covered bowl barrow with a surrounding ditch, which on the South side is 2.0m. wide and 0.4m. deep. Diameter of the barrow is 14.0m; height 1.3m. The barrow shows signs of a north east-south west trench having been cut through the centre. <3>

Bowl barrow (ST 87170083) on Charlton Down; top of mound disturbed by north-south trench; diam of mound 40ft, ht 4 1/2ft, ditch 6ft across and 1 1/2ft deep. <4>

ST 868008; ST 872008. Two round barrows on Charlton Down. Scheduled (see ST 80 SE 20 for the other scheduled barrow). <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 87180083) Tumulus

<2> 1954, Field Investigators Comments, 30/09/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX3839.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 99 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> 1954, Field Investigators Comments, 19/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX3839.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 59 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘Nine barrows in the S.W. of the parish form part of a barrow scatter that is continued in the adjacent parishes of Winterborne Whitechurch and Winterborne Kingston; they lie between 250 ft. and 400 ft. O.D., on the E.-facing slopes of the Chalk downland between the valleys of the Stour and the Winterborne; all have been heavily ploughed. Three barrows on Charlton Down were opened by H. White in 1811 (Warne C.T.D., Pt. 3, Nos. 48, 49 and 50; Hutchins III, 525); one contained, near the surface, an inhumation, probably intrusive, with the feet to the E.; the second contained a cremation in an urn; the third contained a primary cremation in a globular urn set in a circular cist 2 ft. deep and 1½ ft. wide, cut into the chalk beneath (Barrow Diggers, 91–2 and Pl. 8; Arch. J. CXIX (1962), 57). A skull (Barrow Diggers, 81–2 and Pl. 6) may be that of the skeleton found by White, or from a further barrow as suggested by Hutchins. … (13) Bowl (87170083), on Charlton Down; top of mound disturbed by N.-S. trench; diam. of mound 40 ft., ht. 4½ ft., ditch 6 ft. across and 1½ ft. deep.’

<5> DOE, 1977, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 1977, 62 (Scheduling record). SDO17495.

<6> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 24/07/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 22 2024 12:25PM