Monument record MDO7307 - Bowl barrow west of Polar Wood, Church Knowle

SY 93597883. Church Knowle 10. Bowl barrow 19? Paces diameter, 2ft high west of Polar Wood. Measured by A Herdan. <1>

Two mounds; possibly barrows, above the 600ft contour and about 400m. north north east of the known barrow on Swyre Head (see SY 97 NW 9), were noted by P. A. Brown. The more northerly mound lies in a field west of Polar Wood, at SY 93577884; the other, about 70m south, at SY 93567876, is crossed by the field wall and track running south west from the wood. <2>

SY 93567876. Church Knowle 15. Barrow? Listed with reference to Authy 2. <5>

A: SY93557885. A much ploughed barrow, reduced to a circular mound of earth and limestone rubble, 12m in diameter and 0.3m high. Surveyed at 1:2500 on OS plan. <6>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 101 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 441-442 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(35) Bowl (?) (SY 97 NW; 93597883) on broad ridge sloping slightly N. Diam. 30 ft., ht. 1½ ft., with many stones visible.’

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1971, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1970, 157 (Serial). SDO70.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 218 (Index). SDO147.

'Visible as a low rise, crossed by a dry stone wall. S.E. of the boundary the barrow was in permanent pasture, grazed by sheep. N.W. of the boundary the mound has been reduced by ploughing, in a regularly cultivated field. 7/7/C.'

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 37 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<6> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 25-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456601 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2023 3:49PM