Monument record MDO7442 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ailwood Down Group, Corfe Castle

National Record of the Historic Environment, 456762 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 444 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(216) Bowl (99598147) 30 yds. S.S.E. of (215). Diam. 30 ft., ht. 1½ ft.’

<2> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 24 (Index). SDO147.

'Bowl barrow, Diam. 9.1m and Ht. 0.5m. A faint rise on heathland under a dense covering of gorse and bracken on a S. facing slope. Uneven surface to mound. OS SY98SE5. RAF/VAP/1821:2403. 1/2/C. TWA/IOP/1985'

<3> Papworth M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 47 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

A bowl barrow, one of a group of seventeen round barrows and one long barrow. This site lies south of the main group on the south slope below the crest of the chalk ridge. It is visible as a small faint rise 8m dia. and 0.3m high with no visible ditch but a small quarry to the north-west may have provided material for the mound, it is 7m dia. and 0.3m deep. Nine mounds are recorded on Woodward's map (1775) and a cremation burial is recorded from one of the barrows in this group (Miles 1826). A similar mound to the north-west may be an additional barrow 112,628. This land has been downland since at least 1585 (Treswell) and appears never to have been ploughed.

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Mar 15 2024 3:21PM