Monument record MDO6340 - Bowl barrow on Bottlebush Down, Wimborne St Giles

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as having a mound of about twenty metres in diameter and just over one metre high, with some traces of a surrounding ditch. The monument was dug into by the antiquarian William Cunnington, who found a primary cremation. The barrow is visible as a very low earthwork on lidar imagery, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A bowl barrow, one of a group of three dug into by William Cunnington in the early 19th century. It was described by RCHME as a mound 64 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, with some traces of a surrounding ditch. Both RCHME and Grinsell state that Cunnington found a primary cremation, although Cunnington himself (quoted by Colt Hoare) refers only to a "simple interment of burned bones". The other two barrows dug into by Cunnington are recorded as SU 01 NW 56 and 217. This barrow was originally recorded as part of SU 01 NW 56. <1-3>

A round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as having a mound of about twenty metres in diameter and just over one metre high, surrounded by a shallow ditch. The monument was dug into by the antiquarian William Cunnington, who found a primary cremation. The barrow is visible as a very low earthwork on lidar imagery, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP <4>.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 145 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Colt Hoare, Sir Richard, 1975, The ancient history of Wiltshire, 243 (Monograph). SDO18077.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 102 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(92) Bowl (01951648), among scrub, yielded a primary cremation; diam. 64 ft., ht. 4 ft. with traces of a ditch.'

<4> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1314502 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 5 2024 7:28PM