Monument record MDO3674 - Bowl barrow, Charlton Marshall

A bowl barrow discovered during the Dorset Barrow Survey in 1986 when it was described as a slight mound about 0.2 metres high and 10.8 metres in diameter.

<1> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey (Index). SDO134.

Discovered during field-work. Lies approx 50 paces NE of Combe Ditch, seen from the footpath that runs parallel with this linear earthwork. 10.0m in diameter and 0.2m high. No visible ditch. A faint swelling in a field in established grass grazed by cattle when visited. The field appeared to be rarely ploughed and the mound lay just N of a group of trees which grew at the S edge of the field. The mound may have been ploughed down int he past.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1989, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1988, 143 (Serial). SDO88.

Charlton Marshall, ST 86500088, round barrow? 10.8 m dia., 0.2 m high in improved pasture.

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