Monument record MDO795 - Bowl barrow on Haydon Hill, 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)

'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. 7/5/D.
Papworth MDJ/TWA/23.10.85'.

A round mound, 16m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. It is potentially the site of a Bronze Age barrow. {1}

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 07-FEB-55 (Unpublished document).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

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 Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 23-MAR-81 (Unpublished document).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

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4133-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10893.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453295 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 7 2024 8:05AM