Monument record MDO47586 - Bowl barrow on Hambledon Hill, Child Okeford

A mound recorded by RCHME field surveyors in 1996, and interpreted as a possible Bronze Age round barrow. The monument would have been around eleven metres in diameter, but it has been mutilated, probably in the course of historic looting, and a furrow across it is part of a later field system. The feature is visible as a low earthwork mound on 1920s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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.

A possible barrow was identified by RCHME at ST 8451 1239. It has been mutilated by looting and by a furrow which cuts through it. The original diameter would have been c.11m. For further details, see RCHME Level 3 client report and earthwork plan at 1:1000 scale, held in archive. <1>

The feature is visible as a low 8m by 6.8m earthwork mound on 1920s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (ALK 1924; EA 2018). The mound has been truncated on its north side by a medieval plough furrow (ALK 1924). The feature was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Alexander Keiller Collection, 14-JUL-1924, ALK/7434 251 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21576.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

<1> RCHME: Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic (Monograph). SWX1665.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206242 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2025 4:57PM