Monument record MDO772 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bushy Eweleaze Group, Charminster

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 the monument was recorded as being some 60 feet in diameter and 2 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.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 20 paces in diameter and 2 feet high, and noted that it was a cairn and on arable in 1953. <1>

(`A' - SY 67609611; `B' - (SY 67669609) Tumuli (NR)

`A' - SY 67609611. Cairn, 20 paces diameter and 2ft high situated on Bushy Eweleaze.

`B' - SY 67669609. Cairn, 8 paces diameter and 9ins high. (Both cairns are listed under bowl barrows).

`C' - SY 67789610. Probable barrow, irregular in plan with no measurable diameter but 2.5ft high. Covered with furze. (2)

`A' - (34) - SY 67599611. Bowl barrow, 60 ft diameter and 2 ft high in arable land.

`B' - (35) - SY 67669609. Bowl barrow, about 20ft diameter and 2.5ft high before ploughing.

`C' - (36) - SY 67789610. Barrow? 140 yds east of `B' on a gentle east slope; irregular in shape and apparently disturbed in centre. Thickly overgrown when visited. No diameter measurable but height about 2.5ft. (3)

`A' - SY 67599611; ploughed down bowl barrow 18.2m in diameter and 0.3m high.

`B' and `C'; ploughed out.

Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (4)

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. <3>

Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 09-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452965 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(`A' - SY 67609611; `B' - (SY 67669609) Tumuli (NR)

<1> 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.

'(34) Bowl (67599611), in arable; diam. 60 ft., ht. 2 ft.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 99 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 10:29AM