Monument record MDO6335 - Bowl barrow, one of the Handley Hill Group, Wimborne St Giles

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being about nine metres in diameter and less than half a metre high. The monument has been much reduced by ploughing. Air photographs suggest that the ditch surrounding the mound is square rather than round, prompting suggestions that the monument may be of Iron Age date.

(Centred SU 01451625) Tumuli (NR). <1>

(87) Bowl (01491626), now almost levelled by ploughing; diam. 30 ft., ht. under 1 ft. <2>

Wimborne St Giles 87: possible Iron Age square barrow. <4-5>

Urn sherds, one with part of a Cordon, and minute flecks of burnt bone were found after ploughing the barrow at ST 0152 1631 (RCHM Mon 89). <3>

Air photographs suggest that the ditch surrounding the mound is square rather than round, prompting suggestions that the monument may be of Iron Age date. The barrow group itself comprises 5 barrows, 3 of them in a line. The other 4 were previously recorded here but have now been recorded separately. See also SU 01 NW 79.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 102 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(87) Bowl (01491626), now almost levelled by ploughing; diam. 30 ft., ht. under 1 ft.'

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 54 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, 81, 86 (Monograph). SWX800.

<5> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 23 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<5.1> National Monuments Record, NMR OAP SU 0116/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18925.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213519 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 28 2022 1:16PM