Monument record MDO779 - Bowl barrow on Wood Hill, Charminster

Possible site of a Bronze Age barrow, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. This monument is recorded as being a flinty mound around 1½ feet high and about 55 feet in diameter.

A small mound, 12m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. This is the possible site of a Bronze Age barrow. {1}

DCM, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 Dorset Co Museum (Anon udt.) (Map). SWX2335.

Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 16-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 453319 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, LS Rev (G Sibley 17.2.58) (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

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

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2 (Monograph). SWX2300.

Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4085-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10901.

<2> 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.

’(41) Barrow ? (68039390), on Wood Hill at about 350 ft. O.D., now a flinty mound in arable; diam. about 55 ft., ht. 1½ ft.’

Record last edited

Nov 9 2023 12:31PM