Monument record MDO6759 - Bowl Barrow, Canford Heath, Poole

Bowl barrows.<2>

(b) (SZ 03439613) Diameter 45ft. Height 2ft. No ditch, depressed flat top. <3>

B: This barrow has been destroyed, probably by the surface diggings 0.3m. - 0.5m. deep, which now cover its site. <4>

RCHM <5> state that barrow 'A' to the north-east is destroyed and barrow 'B' is extant, the reverse of that stated by auth.4.

The surviving barrow is 43 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, hollowed on top, now damaged and isolated in a gravel pit.

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

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 03439613; SZ 03449615) Tumuli (NR)

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

<3> Wallace, W G, 1919-1923, Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society 6 and private notes (Article in serial). SWX3467.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 14/11/1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<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.

'(378) Bowl, (?) (SZ 09 NW; 03439614)on level site above slopes N. and W. to small valley. Diam. 43 ft., ht. 5 ft., but now damaged and isolated in gravel pit. Hollowed on top.'

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

(SZ 03439613) Tumulus (NR) (Site of) (NAT)

<7> 1978, List of ancient monuments in England: Southern England, 2 (Monograph). SWX1558.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457997 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 6 2025 2:07PM