Monument record MDO783 - Bowl barrow, Wolfeton Clump, Charminster

A sub-circular mound on the south side of Charlton Higher Down, Charminster, is visible as a soilmark and an earthwork on aerial photographs. The feature is considered to be a Bronze Age bowl barrow; it is shown as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Two bowl barrows `A' and `B'. 12 and 15 paces in diameter, 3 and 4.5ft high. 'B' has a ditch. <2>

`A'. A flinty mound, 11.0 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres high. A bowl barrow, with no visible ditch. <4>

`A'. SY 69449497. Bowl barrow, 36ft diameter, and 2.5ft high with disturbed centre, A low `Celtic' field lynchet runs up to the barrow on either side but is clearly later. <5>

`A' - SY 695950. Round barrow south-west of Wolfeton Clump. Scheduled. <6>

Bronze Age barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. <7>

`A' has been ploughed down and now measures 13.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <8>

A sub-circular mound on the south side of Charlton Higher Down, Charminster, is visible as a soilmark and an earthwork on aerial photographs [9, 10]. The feature is considered to be a Bronze Age bowl barrow; it is shown as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map [1]. An outer ditch is visble as a soilmark on 2020 Google Earth imagery [10]. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(`A' - SY 69449497; `B' - SY 69659484) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<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.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 62 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<7> 12-SEP-1997, DCC 3197 0431 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10910.

<8> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 26-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<9> National Monuments Record, 08-APR-1976, NMR 915/34-35 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21012.

<10> Google Earth, 16-09-2020, Google Earth imagery 2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16840.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453324 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2025 3:21PM