Monument record MDO3669 - Bowl barrow, Charlton Marshall

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 42 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high. The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 17m across, with internal mound, on aerial photographs taken in 2015. It was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. The soilmark traces of two adjacent Bronze Age round barrows located to the north-east of Ashe Farm which are visible on aerial photographs taken in 2015 as part of the Historic England Reconnaissance Recording Programme. These lie within the faint earthwork/soilmark traces of a coaxial later prehistoric or Roman embanked field system extending across a number of fields.

'B' Bowl barrow (86320249) 25 yds SE of 'A'; diameter 42ft, height 1 1/2ft. <2>

The soilmark traces of two adjacent Bronze Age round barrows located to the north-east of Ashe Farm which are visible on aerial photographs taken in 2015 as part of the Historic England Reconnaissance Recording Programme. These lie at approximantely ST 8632 0249 and ST 8631 0251 within the faint earthwork/soilmark traces of a coaxial later prehistoric or Roman embanked field system extending across a number of fields. <3>

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 17m across, with internal mound, on aerial photographs taken in 2015 <3>. It was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred ST 863025) Tumuli (NR)

<2> 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.

<3> Historic England Archive, 30-APR-2015, HEA 29571/027 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19494.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205645 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 10 2023 10:40AM