Monument record MDO782 - Bowl barrow west of Wolfeton Clump, Charminster

A bowl barrow on a south-facing slope. In 1970 this monument was recorded as around 50 feet in diameter with a mound about 2 feet high. The barrow is visible as a very low slightly elliptical earthwork 16m by 13m on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

SY 69459518. A bowl barrow. Diameter 17 paces. Height 2ft. Information from RCHM. <1>

SY 69449518. A cairn, many of the flints from it being scattered over a wide area of a grass field. Diameter 16.0m; height 0.6m.<2>

Auth 2 correct though the feature is grass covered and has the appearance of a bowl barrow in contrast to cairns built entirely of stone. <3>

SY 69459518. Bowl barrow, 50 ft diameter and 2ft high, situated 200 yds west of Wolfeton Clump. <4>

Ploughed down barrow 18.4m in diameter and 0.3m high. Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

The barrow is visible as a very low slightly elliptical earthwork 16m by 13m on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 06-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<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.

'(44) Bowl (69459518), 200 yds. W. of the Wolfeton Clump on the S. slope of Charlton Higher Down at just over 400 ft. O.D.; diam. 50 ft., ht. 2 ft.'

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1975 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 69459518) Tumulus (NR)

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F3 NJA 19-DEC-80 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452976 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 11:58AM