Monument record MDO6751 - Bowl barrow, Canford Heath Barrow Group, Poole

Bowl barrow, one of a line of four barrows in the Canford Heath Barrow Group. A narrow trench is dug into the mound, perhaps the result of First World War military activity. The barrow is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery and was digitally plotted using these sources by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Bowl barrow with mound 13.0 m in diameter and 1.67 m high. A narrow trench 1.3m. deep extends from the SE side to the centre of the mouth. This trench may be of military nature, probably dating to First World War activity. (2)

The barrow is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (3 and 4). From these sources the feature appears to comprise a sub-circular mound around 11m across with a possible partial ditch on its west side. This varies in width up to 1.5m across (4).

The location of the barrow on current Lidar imagery is SW 02302 95438; 17m SE of given NGR.

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> 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.

'CANFORD HEATH GROUP (SZ 09 NW). Four bowls in slightly irregular W.S.W.-E.N.E. line near W. edge of plateau, above 200 ft. contour and steep W. slope. All much damaged.
(370) Ditched bowl (02299545). 20 yds. E.N.E. of (369). Diam. 39 ft., ht. 4.5 ft., with ditch about 7 ft. wide.'

<2> National Monuments Record, NMR Monument Record, SZ 09 NW 36 (Index). SDO9937.

<3> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4201-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16056.

<4> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

Record last edited

Dec 2 2019 2:07PM