Monument record MDO6763 - Bowl barrow, Dunyeat's Hill, Poole

Bowl barrow, about 11.5m in diameter and up to 1.3m high, with traces of a surrounding quarry ditch. A large depression in the centre of the mound suggests it has been excavated in the past. The barrow is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and was digitally plotted from these sources by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

An irregular and spread bowl barrow, heather and tree covered, with vague unsurveyable traces of a ditch on the west side. The mound has a diameter of 12.0m., it is 1.0m. high on the east, and 0.3m. on the west. The top has been generally mutilated by digging. <2>

Bowl barrow, diameter 13 paces, hollow centre. Height 3 ft. <3>

SZ 01469655. Bowl (?) barrow, 36 ft. diameter and 4 ft. high with hollowed top. <4>

SZ 015965. Round barrow on Dunyeats Hill. Scheduled. <5>

SZ 01469655. Bowl barrow, diameter 11.5 metres, height from 0.6 metres to 1.3 metres. Unsurveyable traces of ditch. Resurveyed at 1:1250 on M.S.D. <6>

Bowl barrow situated in a dominant position at the east end of a prominent spur. It remains as described by auth. 6. <7>

A large depression in the centre of the mound, 2 metres in diameter and 1 metre deep, suggests that it has been excavated in the past. (2)

The barrow is visible on 1940s aerial photographs <9> and was digitally plotted from these sources by the Dorset Stour NMP project. The feature is indistinct but appears to comprise a low 10m in diameter mound with a shallow elongated depression set into the top of the mound on its west side. The feature is under scrub on current Google Earth imagery and not visible.

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

(SZ 01469655) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-NOV-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> 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.

"(382) Bowl (?) (SZ 09 NW; 01469655) above 200 ft. contour on tip of spur. Diam. 36 ft., ht. 4 ft. Hollowed on top."

<5> List of ancient monuments in England: Volume 1, Northern England; Volume 2, Southern England; Volume 3, East Anglia and the Midlands Vol 3 Page(s) 82, 67 (Monograph). SWX1955.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F3 CFW 09-JAN-87 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

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

<9> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3253-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16027.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457953 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 2:23PM