Monument record MDO6767 - Bowl barrow, Gravel Hill Plantation, Poole

Ditched bowl barrow in Gravel Hill Plantation. The barrow mound is recorded as 14m in diameter and 1.5m high and the ditch has been partly destroyed by gravel extraction.

Bowl barrow. <2>

A. SZ 01989732. A tree covered bowl barrow, diameter 9.0m. height 0.2m. on the north, 0.4m. on the south side. There is a ditch 1.2m. wide and 0.1m. deep, but this is only surveyable around the north quadrant. Old gravel diggings extend to the south-east edge of the mound and have destroyed the ditch in that quandrant. <3>

'A'. SZ 01989732. Bowl barrow in dense woodland. Diameter 14.0 metres, height 1.5 metres. The ditch is not visible. 'A'. Resurveyed at 1:1250 on M.S.D. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1934 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 01989732; SZ 02009731) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 14-NOV-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<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.

'(386) Ditched bowl (?) (SZ 09 NW; 01999732) in Gravel Hill Plantation. Formed pair with (387). Destroyed by gravel digging.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457969 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 11:10AM