Monument record MDO6748 - Bowl barrow, Lodge Hill, Canford Heath, Poole

Bowl barrow, badly damaged by gravel quarrying. A small sub-circular feature at this location is faintly visible on 1940s aerial photographs and may be the barrow identified here. It was digitally plotted from these sources by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Bowl Barrow about 9.5 m in diameter and 0.8 m high. It was described as very irregular and spread, but unopened, in 1919. <1>

In 1955, the barrow was described as a grass covered mound 9.5m in diameter and 0.8m high, rounded and well formed. This description in no way conforms to the earlier description. The grass covering of the mound, in an area of heather suggests that it has been excavated and completely 're-built'. <3>

By 1987, the whole of the east side of the barrow had been removed. The vicinity of the barrow has suffered extensive stripping and two small mounds close by appear to be upcast. <8>

A small sub-circular feature at this location is faintly visible on 1940s aerial photographs <9> and may be the barrow identified here. It is visible as a low mound of exposed ground, possibbly laid bare through adjacent quarrying activity (MDO41222). There is the suggestion of a possible ditch about 0.5 m in width.

The feature was digitally plotted from the 1940s aerial photograph by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Bowl barrows. (a) (SZ 02759535) Diameter 45ft. Height 3ft. Very irregular and spread. Unopened. <4>

A: The published barrow is a grass covered mound 9.5m. In diameter and 0.8m. High. It is rounded and well formed. The present mound in no way conforms to the description given in (Wallace), the source of which is not clear.

The grass covering of the mound, in an area of heather suggests that it has been excavated and completely 're-built'. It now has the form of a bowl barrow; there is no ditch. <3>

(A). SZ 02759534. Much damaged bowl barrow, 22 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. Scheduled (part of a group of barrows). <7>

Three bowl barrows: one much damaged. Since the report of 1970 the whole of the east side of barrow A has been removed but the hollow left is too overgrown to allow inspectionof the exposed interior. The vicinity of the barrow has suffered extensive stripping and two small mounds close by appear to be upcast.Barrow has had a quarry dug up to the limit of the mound on the south side destroying the the ditch which is now recognisable around the north west quadrant only. <8>

<1> Wallace, W G, 1919-23, Bournemouth Natural Science Society 6" map and private notes (Article in serial). SDO17433.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1938 (Map). SDO11924.

(SZ 02759535; SZ 03039530) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-NOV-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 448 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Bowl (SZ 09 NW; 02759534) on opposite side of re-entrant, 100 yds. E of (366). Diam. 22ft., ht. 3 ft. Much damaged.'

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SZ 02759535; SZ 03029530) Tumulus (NR) (twice)

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 67 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F2 CFW 20-NOV-1987 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

<9> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4202-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16046.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 12:54PM