Monument record MDO6739 - Fern Barrow, Talbot Heath, Poole

A bowl barrow with a mound about 14metres in diameter and one metre high. The barrow has been damaged and partly dug away particularly on the northern side. The quarry ditch surrounding the mound from which material to construct the mound was derived is no longer visible but will survive as a buried feature about 2 metres wide.

SZ 07009258. Fern Barrow (site of), a bowl barrow measured by W G Wallace in 1919 when the dimensions were 14 paces diameter and 5 ft high. Opened in 1930 and a turf shelter built against the north side. <2>

Fern Barrow, bowl (?), originally about 42 ft diameter and about 4 1/2 ft, but much damaged. <3>

SZ 069925. Fern Barrow - a round barrow much mutilated and dug away. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1931-2 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 06999258) Fern Barrow (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 126 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, p447 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Department of the Environment, Department of the Environment (Inspector of Ancient Monuments) Record Form, 10/11/1977 (Index). SDO17344.

<5> Historic England, Scheduled Monument Notification, 29/04/1998 (Scheduling record). SDO17468.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458158 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 6:06PM