Monument record MDO5825 - Bowl barrow, one of the Veiny Cheese Pond Barrow Group, Long Crichel

A bowl barrow, one of a straight linear group on the east side of the Crichel valley, a few hundred metres east of Veiny Cheese Pond. In 1975 this monument was reported as being between 25 and 50 feet in diameter, and much reduced by ploughing.

RCHME described the barrows as all having been largely flattened by ploughing, and varying between 25 and 50 feet in diameter. Grinsell measured it at 17 paces across.

Although the barrow has not been excavated, it is clear that it was ploughed out prior to 1954 and now has limited potential. Geophysical survey and sample excavation may determine the extent of survival and potential, but on present evidence it is not proposed to schedule this barrow. Ground photo with archive report. <3>

A rapid examination of air photography suggests that besides the barrows aligned as described (A-E), there are possibly two others (at ST 9670 1164 (F) and ST 9668 1177 (G), less certain than F) visible as soil marks, as are A-E. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1963 (Map). SDO11924.

(Centred ST 967117) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 40 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘The Veiny Cheese Pond Barrow Group comprises five barrows (24–28), all largely flattened by ploughing. The mounds, from 25 ft. to 50 ft. in diameter, lie close together in an almost straight line extending N.W.–S.E. on the N.E. side of the Crichel valley, some 330 yds. E. of the pond. Grid references are : (24), 96671175.’

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 44 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project, 04-FEB-1993 (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<4.1> NMR 4554: 64-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18323.

<5> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, S J Lobb, MPPA, Mar-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210097 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 31 2022 11:22AM