Monument record MDO6773 - Bowl barrow, Rose Lawn Barrow Group, Broadstone Golf Course, Poole

`E' A tree covered bowl barrow with no visible ditch. The mound has a diameter of 17.0m., and a height of 1.8m. This barrow has been excavated in fairly recent years. A trench 2.5m wide has been dug from the east side to beyond the centre of the mound, and slightly below the level of the natural surface. <2>

(e) SZ 00799752. Diameter 18 paces. Height 8 ft. <3>

SZ 007974. Group of round barrows on Broadstone Golf Course Scheduled. <5>

`E'. SZ 00789751. Bowl barrow in woodland. Diameter 16.5 metres, height 2.2 metres. Trech 9.0 metres by by 3.5 metres. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

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

Area centred SZ 007975 Tumuli (NR) Tumulus (NR) (Three times)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 26/06/1981 (Unpublished document).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, 449 (Monograph). SDO150.

'ROSE LAWN GROUP (SZ 09 NW). Eight barrows, forming a compact group though with no obvious focus, on and towards N.E. end of broad ridge above 200 ft. contour. Most are on golf course. … (392) Ditched Bowl (?) (00799751) 30 yds. S.E. of (391) and similarly planted. Diam. 51 ft., ht. 7 ft.'

<5> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 26/06/1981 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457945 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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