Monument record MDO6754 - Bowl barrow,Canford Heath, Poole

A bowl barrow on Canford Heath with a mound up to 11 metres in diameter and 1.3 metres high. The mound is surrounded by the remains of a quarry ditch, now visible as a slight hollow.

Bowl Barrow. Diameter 30ft. Height 3.5ft. Overgrown by gorse and heather. Ditched. <1> <4>

SZ 02439556. A heather covered bowl barrow with unsurveyable traces of a ditch. The mound has a diameter of 11.0m. and a
height of 1.3m. There is a small pit, 1.0m. deep, in the top of the mound. <3>

SZ 02439559. Bowl barrow, 27 feet in diameter and 3 1/2 feet high, much damaged. <5>

Scheduled (one of a group of barrows). <7>

A bowl barrow, 1.3m in height and surrounded on all sides except the south by a well defined ditch. (See illustration card). <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 6in, 1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 02439556) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-NOV-55 (Unpublished document).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.

'(373) Bowl (SZ 09 NW; 02439559) on level site above 200 ft., 180 yds. N.E. of (372). Diam. 27 ft., ht. 3.5 ft. Much Damaged.'

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

(SZ 02439558) Tumulus (NR)

<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 Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F2 CFW 20-NOV-87 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458024 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 4 2023 3:57PM