Monument record MDO7321 - Bowl barrow, one of the Creech Heath Group, Church Knowle

A mound, 17m across, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. It is one of a linear cemetery of four Bronze Age barrows forming the Creech Heath Group.

A mound, 17m across, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <3>. It is one of a linear cemetery of four Bronze Age barrows forming the Creech Heath Group. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

'C' SY 92528402. Large Bowl barrow with slight ditch. <4>

SY 92488402. Church Knowle 3. Four bowl barrows listed, details as above. <5>

The Creech Heath group of four bowl barrows lies in a west-east line above a south slope. One of these may have been the barrow on the Heath opened in the 19th century (see SY 98 SW 47) No. 48.(C). 56 feet diameter by 9 feet high with ditch about 7 feet wide. <6>

A string of four round barrows occupying a prominent position on a low ridge in heathland. 'C'. This ditched round barrow is situated on the edge of the ridge top so part of its mound and ditch lie on a south-facing slope. It measures from 22.0 to 23.0m overall and the mound is up to 2.6m high. The ditch at its deepest is 0.7m but it gradually fades to 0.2m on the downhill side. (c/f SY 98 SW 1. 'b'). Published 1:2500 survey revised. <8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1925 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 925840) Tumuli (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document).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

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4411-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13469.

<4> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 25-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 101 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

‘(I) Creech Heath Group (SY 98 SW). Four barrows in a short straight W.-E. line above S. slope from slight ridge. Probably one of these, or perhaps (45), was built of turf and contained a probably primary cremation with a small, ruby-coloured object, possibly amber (LVG 5a; Warne, C.T.D., cpf, no. 43). … (48) Ditched bowl (92538402) immediately E. of (47). Diam. 56 ft., ht. 9 ft., with ditch about 7 ft. wide.’

<7> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 231 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on heathland, this barrow is covered in gorse, with heather and bracken. Ditch clear except on S. & W. 1/2/B.’

<8> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F2 MJF 02-MAY-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457029 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 17 2025 4:39PM