Monument record MDO6386 - Bowl Barrow, Oakley Down Group, Wimborne St Giles

A mound identified as possibly a bowl barrow excavated in the 1880s by Colt Hoare, who found a cist containing 'burnt bones and nails'. In 1954 the barrow was described as being around 8.5 metres in diameter with a mound 0.2 metres high; no trace of an encircling ditch could be seen at this time. It has also been suggested that this mound may be an isolated surviving fragment of a late prehistoric field system.

Cremation with large headed iron nails in cist, Romano-British?

A slight mound 9 feet in diameter by 6 inches high is situated at SU 02071769. Grinsell <1> thought it might be a barrow excavated by Colt Hoare, but the Royal Commission <3> has identified it as not a barrow but an angle of a 'Celtic' field.

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

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

(SU 02071769) Tumulus (NR)

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

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 884288 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

RCHME: Oakley Down Barrows, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. Working drawing.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213501 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 15 2023 7:12AM