Monument record MDO6752 - Bowl barrow, Canford Heath Barrow Group, Poole

Bowl barrow, one of a line of four barrows in the Canford Heath Barrow Group. A small square pit has been dug in the top of the mound. 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.

'Diameter 14.5m., height 1.7m., a small square pit 1.0m. deep, has been dug into the top of the mound. (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 12m across (4).

The location of the barrow on current Lidar imagery is SW 02323 95442; 9m 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.
(371) Bowl (02329545). 30 yds. E. of (370). Diam. 43 ft., ht. 5 ft.'

<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