Monument record MDO794 - Bowl barrow on Haydon Hilll, Charminster

SY 67069416. A ditchless grass covered mound. Diameter 14.0 metres east-west and 13.0 metres north-south. Probably a bowl barrow, mutilated by cultivation. (1)

(SY 67069416) Moiund located and surveyed. (2)

The mound is generally as described and measured by Authority (1). Another similar mound in the same field, at SY 66959416, measures 19.6 metres east-west and 21.8 metres north-south, and also averages 0.5 metres high. Both are currently ploughed and composed of earth; possible bowl barrows. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (4)

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 17 paces in diameter with a slight mound. <5>

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 07-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, LS Rev (W C Diment 1.5.58) (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1960 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY 67069417) Mound (NAT)

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 23-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 36 (Monograph). SWX1703.

'OS Arch. 7 Feb 1955: reduced by ploughing.'

<6> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey (Index). SDO134.

Site lies in a field regularly ploughed in pasture grazed by cattle when visited. Visible as a faint rise reduced and spread by ploughing. On a south-facing slope of a spur.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453295 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 7 2024 7:57AM