Monument record MDO3672 - Bowl barrow north of Holly Brake, Charlton Marshall

Bowl, almost completely destroyed by ploughing. The site is visible as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

C-ST 87780216. Bowl barrow, 17.0m diameter and 0.4m high (see ST 80 SE 28). <2>

C (20) Bowl barrow (ST 87790217) almost completely ploughed out. <3>

The site is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery <9> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. It comprises a central mound, 15m across, with an external ring ditch visible on aerial photographs <10>.

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

(Centred ST 876020) Tumuli (NR) (Three shown)

<2> 1954, Field Investigators Comments, 10-OCT-1954 (Unpublished document). SWX3839.

<3> 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. … (19) Bowl (87660206), 200 yds. E.N.E. of (18) and at a lower level on the same spur; almost completely destroyed by ploughing.’

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1969 (Map). SWX1540.

(A-ST 87480201) Tumulus (NR) (B-ST 87650206; C-ST 87780216) Tumulus (NR) (site of) (NAT) (twice)

<5> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 24/07/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 99 (Monograph). SDO132.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205688 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<9> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<10> National Monuments Record, 06-JUN-2007, NMR 24630/13 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19481.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:58PM