Monument record MDO7264 - Bowl barrow west of The Five Marys barrow group, Chaldon Herring

A round barrow of possible bowl-type, 41ft diameter x 1.5ft high, disturbed in centre. <1> <3>

SY 78688418. Barrow, in rough grass, diameter 12.0m, height 0.4m. No visible ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery <5> to the west of the Five Marys barrow group, Chaldon Herring. The barrow is sub-circular and measures 10 m in diameter. It has a narrow ditch around it, which is curtailed on the northern side by a modern field boundary. This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 98 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 78688418) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 441 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(50) Bowl (?) (SY 78 SE; 78698418). Diam. 41 ft., ht. 1½ ft. Disturbed in centre.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 17-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 454226 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 7 2023 2:09PM