Monument record MDO6322 - Bowl barrow at the northern end of Blackbush Plantation, Wimborne St Giles

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being about fourteen metres in diameter and less than a metre high. The monument is in woodland.

SU 03481629 A bowl barrow at the north end of Blackbush Plantation, lies near the top of the ridge; diameter 45 ft, height 2.1/2 ft. <3>

A bowl barrow located at the north end of Blackbush Plantation. RCHME described it as a mound 45 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet high. Grinsell recorded "no certain trace" in January 1953. <1, 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), 102 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(74) Bowl (03481629), at the N. end of Blackbush Plantation, lies near the top of the ridge; diam. 45 ft., ht. 2½ ft.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213565 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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