Monument record MDO7385 - Bowl barrow on Coombe Heath, Coombe Keynes

A bowl barrow on a slight rise. In 1970 this monument was described as being around 36 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high and an irregular surface.

A small bowl barrow. <2>

The diameter of this mound is 9.0 metres and the height 0.7 metres. There is no visible sign of a berm or a ditch. Composed of blackish earth and small flints, it is sparsely covered with heather. No surface finds were made in the vicinity of this bowl barrow, which is on a military firing range. The main mutilation seems to have been caused by rabbits. <3>

SY 86708507. Bowl barrow, 36ft. diameter and 3ft. high with irregular surface. <5>

SY 861845 - 866850. Round barrows on Coombe Heath. Scheduled. <6>

SY 86708506. Bowl barrow, diameter 10.0 metres, height 1.0 metres; in forestry plantation. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <7>

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 86708506) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 09-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 102 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> 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.

All eight barrows lie on heathland about ¾ mile E. of the village; six form the Coombe Beacon Group. … (20) Bowl (SY 88 NE; 86708507) in similar position 210 yds. N.E. of (19). Diam. 36 ft., ht. 3 ft. Surface irregular.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 26-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455213 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 19 2023 10:51AM