Monument record MDO776 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bushy Eweleaze Group, Charminster

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 the monument was recorded as being some 25 feet in diameter and one and a half feet high before ploughing. The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 25m in diameter, slightly flattened on the east side, earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A. Cairn on arable land 1953. 16 paces in diameter, 2ft high. (Listed as a bowl barrow) <2>

'A' - A flinty mound 15.0m in diameter and 0.5m high. The field within which these bowl barrows and the cairns are situated is now grass covered. 'A' is probably better termed a bowl barrow, than a 'cairn', being a mixture of earth with flints. <3>

Tumuli shown as extant. <4>

'A' - SY 67999618. Bowl barrow, about 25ft diameter and 1.5ft high before ploughing. <5>

All three barrows have been ploughed out. <6>

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 25m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery, slightly flattened on the east side by a modern fenceline. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8>

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

(A- SY 68009618) Tumulus (NR) (B- SY 68059611, C- SY 68049606) Tumuli (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, LS 25" (R Levett July 58) (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<5> 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.

'(38) Bowl (67999618), 80 yds S.E. of (37) in arable; diam. About 25 ft., ht. 1½ ft. before ploughing'.

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 09-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452983 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 10:46AM