Monument record MDO6298 - Bowl barrow, Wimborne St Giles

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. This monument was reported in 1975 as being 64 feet in diameter and 7.5 feet high. One of a group lying very close together in a northwest-southeast line beside the road from Edmondsham to Wimborne St Giles.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of four (see associated monuments [Note: ie MDO6299, MDO6300 & MDO6301]) lying very close together in a northwest-southeast line beside the road from Edmondsham to Wimborne St Giles. All four are covered with trees and undergrowth. This is the most northwesterly of the group. RCHME described it as a mound 64 feet in diameter and 7.5 feet high.

(Centred SU 04121228) Tumuli (NR). <2>

Barrows (50-53) lie very close together, in a line extending N.W-S.E. beside the road from Edmondsham to Wimborne St. Giles. They are covered with trees and undergrowth.

(50) Bowl (04081230); diam. 64 ft., ht. 7 1/2 ft. <3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 146 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 101 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(50) Bowl (04081230); diam. 64 ft., ht. 7½ ft.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213791 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 11 2022 1:04PM