Monument record MDO7309 - Bowl barrow, East Creech, Church Knowle

A small round mound is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south of East Creech. It is probably the site of a Bronze Age round barrow.

Large Bowl barrow ditched, hollow in centre. <2>

SY 92948226. Church Knowle 6. Ditched bowl barrow listed. <3>

This barrow has a diameter of 12.0m and is 1.1m high with a hollow in the top which has a diameter of 4.3m and is 0.5m deep. A ditch 10.0m long, 2.0m wide and 0.3m deep occurs in the Western quadrant only.
The barrow is turf covered and there were no surface finds. Bowl Barrow. <4>

A small Bronze Age sherd, almost certainly from the rim of a collared urn, has been found by P.A. Brown close to the ditch of the barrow at SY 92948226. <5>

Ditched bowl barrow at SY 92948226 on Stonehill Down. Diameter 41 feet, height 5 feet. Dug into. <6>

SY 929822. Round barrow 300 yards south of East Creech Farm. Scheduled. <7>

A ditched round barrow with a diameter of 16.5 overall. The 1.3m high mound has a shallow central mutilation; the ditch is rather vague except in the w. quadrant where a short lenght is up to 0.3m deep.
Published 1:2500 survey revised. <9>

A small round mound is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south of East Creech. It is probably the site of a Bronze Age round barrow <10>. The mound was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1929 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 92938227) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document).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

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 101 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 17-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1967, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1966, 114 (Serial). SDO66.

‘A Bronze Age sherd from Stonehill Down, Church Knowle. P. A. Brown has shown the writer a small sherd found by him close to the ditch of a round barrow on Stonehill Down (L. V. Grinsell’s Church Knowle no. 6, SY 92948226). The fragment bears cord impressions, and almost certainly comes from the rim of a collared urn.’

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 442 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(37) Ditched bowl (SY 98 SW; 92948226) on Stonehill Down above 400 ft. contour. Diam. 41 ft., ht. 5 ft. Top dug into.’

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 220 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on the southern edge of a field of regularly improved pasture. The barrow is unploughed and covered in established grass. A chalk quarry in use immediately S. of the barrow. A prominent rise. 1/2/B.’

<9> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F2 MJF 30-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<10> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2413-14 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13483.

<11> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456888 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 3:07PM