Monument record MDO6761 - Bowl Barrow, Canford Heath, Poole

Bowl barrow with slight traces of a ditch. It has been damaged by rabbits. The barrow is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery and was digitally plotted from these by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

(b) (SZ 02589624) Diameter 40ft. Height 4ft. Ditched, unopened, honeycombed by rabbits. <1>

B: A bracken covered bowl barrow with slight unsurveyable traces of a ditch except on the west and southwest where the ditch is 1.0m. Wide and 0.1m deep. The mound has a diameter of 12.0m., and is 1.3m. High. It has been much rabbited. <3>

Bowl barrows. <4>

'B'. SZ 02589624. Bowl barrow, diameter 12.0 metres, height 1.2 metres. Traces of a ditch but unsurveyable. 'B'. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

The barrow is visible on 1940's aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery where it shows as a 12m in diameter mound with a 1.3m wide ditch <7 and 8>. It was digitally plotted from these sources by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<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). SDO17328.

(SZ 02539641; SZ 02589624) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 14/11/1955 (Unpublished document).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.

'(380) Ditched Bowl (SZ 09 NW; 02589625) on level site within 200 ft. ring contour. Diam. 39 ft., ht. 4 ft. Damaged.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 26/06/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3255-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16029.

<8> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457992 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 19 2022 6:37PM