Monument record MDO6318 - Bowl barrow in Blackbush Plantation, Wimborne St Giles

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. One of a group of four aligned north-south in Blackbush Plantation. In 1975 this monument was reported as being about twenty-two metres in diameter and just over one metre high. The monument is in woodland.

(Centred SU 03131579) Tumuli (NR). <2>

One of four barrows (70-73), aligned N.-S. in Blackbush Plantation, lie at about 300 ft. above O.D., well down the W. slope of a ridge near Water Lake Bottom.

(70) Bowl (03121571); diam. 73 ft., ht. 4 1/2 ft.

This record now deals solely with bowl barrow (70). The remainder are now recorded separately.

A bowl barrow, one of a group of four aligned north-south in Blackbush Plantation. It was described by RCHME as a mound 73 feet in diameter and 4.5 feet high. <1, 3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 145 (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.

'(70) Bowl (03121571); diam. 73 ft., ht. 4½ ft.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213571 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 8 2024 3:32PM