Monument record MDO7271 - Bowl barrow, Chaldon Herring

A round (bowl?) barrow, represented as a slight irregular mound about 1ft high, is situated on the crest of a ridge 190 yards east of Five Mary's. Grinsell states that a pit to the west of the barrow is marked in error on some OS Maps (i.e. 1" 5th ed.) as a barrow. <1> <3>

SY 79278419. Barrow in arable ploughed down. Diameter 10.0m., height 0.6m. No visible ditch.
Rep-surveyed at 1.2500 on MSD. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on lidar imagery <5> to the east of the Five Marys barrow group, Chaldon Herring. The barrow is sub-circular and measures 10 m in diameter. 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 7928420) 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.

'(57) Bowl (?) (SY 78 SE; 79288420) on crest of ridge 190 yds. E. of (56). Slight irregular mound about 1 ft. high.'

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 17-JUL-80 (Unpublished document).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> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454234 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 7 2023 2:13PM