Monument record MDO774 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bushy Eweleaze Group, Charminster

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 the monument was recorded as being thickly overgrown and no diameter was measured. Its height was about two and a half feet. It is apparently disturbed in its centre. In 1959 Grinsell recorded it as being of irregular plan. The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 23.5m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

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

`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>

`B' and `C'; ploughed out. Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 23.5m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

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

'Probable barrow, irregular in plan, covered with furze; RCHM.'

<3> 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.

'(36) Barrow? (67789610), 140 yds. E. of (35) on a gentle E. slope; irregular in shape, apparently disturbed in the centre; thickly overgrown when visited, no diam. Measurable, ht. about 2½ ft.'

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 09-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452965 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 10:37AM