Monument record MDO47585 - Bowl barrow on Hambledon Hill, Child Okeford

Two bowl barrows: 'B' (ST 84521238). Diameter 5 paces and height 1/4 foot. Very flat circle with a slight ditch. (Not listed by RCHM). <1> <3>

ST 84521238. 'B' There is a slight, irregular mound, about 4.0m across and 0.2m high, about 20.0m south of 'A' but it cannot be positively identified as a barrow. The surrounding area is uneven; probably the result of settlement within the Iron Age hillfort. <4>

Between late May and late August 1996 the Cambridge and Exeter offices of RCHME carried out an earthwork survey and aerial photographic interpretation of the complex of monuments on Hambledon Hill as part of the project to record Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic period.

Barrow B (ST 8452 1238) is as described by Source 5. It has been almost levelled by ploughing and is cut by a furrow. For further details, see RCHME Level 3 client report and earthwork plan at 1:1000 scale, held in archive. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 100 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

ST 84521238 & ST 84521240 Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 83 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(25) BOWL BARROW (84521240) on Hambledon Hill, within the S. end of the hill-fort; centre disturbed; traces of ditch on S.; diam. 40 ft., ht.1½ ft.'

<4> Chaplin, C P, Various, Field Investigators Comments CC, F1 CC 07-APR-78 (Unpublished document). SWX3450.

<4.1> NMR ST 8412/3 & 5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20386.

<5> RCHME: Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic (Monograph). SWX1665.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206242 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2023 9:27AM