Monument record MDO6783 - Bowl barrow, one of the Barrow Hill Group, Poole

One of a group of round barrows on Barrow Hill. Barrow 'D' - SY 99689756 Bowl barrow, 6 paces diameter and 1feet high (RCHM). <2>

Barrow 'D' - Not investigated. <3>

SY 99689756 ; Poole 3a, a bowl barrow 6 paces in diameter and 1 foot high. <4>

Barrow 'D' - (399) - SY 9699755. Bowl(?) barrow, 19 feet diameter and 1foot high. Excavation information is the same as Authy 2. <5>

Barrow 'D'. SY 99699756. Bowl barrow, diameter 5.5 metres, height 0.4 metres. No visible ditch. The barrow is on open heathland and covered with gorse. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

owl barrow on Barrow Hill , part of a barrow cemetery of four bell barrows and two bowl barrows situated 150 metres to the southwest of Brookvale Farm. The barrow is one of four barrows aligned southwest-northeast, and survives as an earthwork with a diameter of 6 metres and height of 0.5 metres. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 996975) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-NOV-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 125 (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, 449 (Monograph). SDO150.

'BARROW HILL GROUP (SY 99 SE). Six barrows, including four bells, on flat-topped ridge above 200 ft. contour. (396-9) form a short S.W.-N.E. alignment. All but (399) have probably been excavated. Three barrows on 'Merley Heath' were excavated by Austen in 1847: two of (396-8) contained unaccompanied cremations beneath a layer of flints; and either (400) or (401) contained a primary cremation in an upright Middle or Late Bronze Age urn, and at least five intrusive inhumations on top of mound. … (399) Bowl (?) (9999755). 56 yds. N.E. of (3987). Diam. 19 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 24-NOV-1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Historic England, Scheduled Monument Notification, 24-Jul-98 (Scheduling record). SDO17468.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 1457308 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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