Monument record MDO771 - Bowl barrow east of Forston Farm, Charminster

A Bronze Age bowl barrow near the summit of a spur east of Forston Field Bottom. In 1970 the monument was recorded as heavily ploughed, some 50 feet in diameter, and two and a half feet high. The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 25m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A bowl barrow, 16 paces diameter, 3ft high. <2>

A bowl barrow. Diameter 23.0m, height 1.0m taken to the west. The plough has exposed a quantity of probable RB pottery and `U' brickwork scattered over the mound, but none outside. No ditch. <3>

SY 67469556. Bowl barrow, heavily ploughed, but about 50ft diameter and 2.5ft high situated near the summit of a spur, east of Forston Field Bottom. <4>

Ploughed down; measures 19.6m in diameter and up to 1.0m high on its lower east side. Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 25m 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, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 67469556) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript, 99 (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 20-JAN-55 (Unpublished document).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)). … (33) Bowl (67469556), near the summit of a spur E. of Forston Field Bottom; heavily ploughed; diam. about 50 ft., ht. 2½ ft.’

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 08-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452968 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 11:43AM