Monument record MDO770 - Bowl barrow north of Forston Barn, Charminster

A Bronze Age bowl barrow just north of Forston Barn on the south slope of Cowden Hill. In 1970 the monument was recorded as being some 60 feet in diameter, and one and a half feet high. The feature is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

(SY 67159664) Tumulus (NR). (1)

A bowl barrow. Diameter 20 paces. Height 2ft. (2)

A grass covered bowl barrow, 19.0m diameter, 1.0m high. No trace of a ditch. (3)

SY 67159665. Bowl barrow, about 60ft diameter and 1.5ft high, just north of Forston Barn. (4)

Ploughed out. (5)

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 18.5m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 67159664) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 03-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 73 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘All these monuments except (31) lie E. of the R. Cerne, on the higher ground between it and the R. Piddle; (34–40) form a scattered group on Bushy Eweleaze and (43–46) lie among the remains of 'Celtic' fields (Group (36)). … (32) Bowl (67159665), just N. of Forston Barn at 500 ft. O.D. on the S. slope of Cowden Hill; ploughed; diam. about 60 ft., ht. 1½ ft.’

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 26-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452883 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 10:23AM