Monument record MDO7535 - Bowl barrow in Nelson Plantation, Rempstone, Corfe Castle

A bowl barrow revealed during the clearing of undergrowth in the 1970s.In 1980, Leslie Grinsell and L Keen recorded it as being 5 feet high and 16 paces in diameter, and in 1983 this monument was reported as being discernible as a low mound. RCHME field investigation in 1986 was unable to locate the barrow, which lies within a dense conifer plantation.

A previously unrecorded barrow at SY 99538221 has been located by Major D C D Ryder of Rempstone as the result of
clearing undergrowth in the replanted Nelson plantation opposite the Rempstone stone circle. <1>

SY 99538221. Corfe Castle 30. Bowl barrow listed, height 5ft diameter 16 paces. Visited by Grinsell and L Keen 26th June 1980. <2>

This feature lies in a dense conifer plantation and was not located. <4>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1976, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1975, 66 (Serial). SDO75.

'A barrow at Rempstone, Corfe Castle. Major D. C. D. Ryder of Rempstone has located an unrecorded barrow at SY 99538221 as the result of clearing undergrowth in the replanted Nelson Plantation opposite the Rempstone stone circle. A new stone circle of sandstone uprights constructed by him at 98658238, on the west side of the drive to his new house, it is worthy of record. We have to thank Mr. P. A. Brown for passing on this information.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 38 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 553 (Index). SDO147.

‘Discernible as a low mound. Part within the fence line of a pheasant rearing enclosure obscured by scrub bracken and young trees. 7/7/D.’

<4> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F1 CFW 02-OCT-86 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456862 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 11:37AM