Monument record MDO5428 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Chalbury

A Bronze Age round barrow lies on almost flat land in the Allen Valley. It appears as a ring ditch 28m across with traces of an inner mound on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Air photographs taken April 15th 2002 show additional circular and linear cropmarks in the vicinity. However, the field has seen use as a pig farm and the area is also covered in crop and soilmarks relating to this phase of use. <2>

The Bronze Age round barrows appears as a ring ditch 28m across with traces of an inner mound on aerial photographs <3-4> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 4 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(9) Barrow (00450685), in a low-lying position on almost flat land in the Allen valley, appears as a ring-ditch on an air photograph (N.M.R, ST 9906/1); diam., about 65 ft.'

<2> 15-APR-2002, NMR 21620/23 SU 0006/39 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19695.

<3> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<4> National Monuments Record, 08-MAY-1980, NMR 1762/230-6 (NMR SU0006/13-19) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15717.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/091 RCHME Inventory: Dorset V (East) (Unpublished document). SDO18032.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213070 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 27 2023 1:34PM