Monument record MDO8465 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Bournemouth

A mound interpreted as a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. An elongated mound is visible at this location on current Lidar imagery and this was digitally plotted during the Dorset NMP.

A densely overgrown mound standing on the northern slope of a natural hillock; the mound measures approx. 15.0m in diameter and has a max height of 0.8 m. There are no signs of mutilation of excavation but it has been slightly pitted by rabbits; no sign or berm or ditch. Possible bowl barrow. <2>

Bowl barrow; published NSL 1:1250 survey correct. <3>

A low elongated mound is visible at this location on current Lidar imagery <4> and this was digitally plotted during the Dorset NMP. The mound occupies the headland of a low west-facing spur of ground and measures about 51m by 20m at its widest point. There is a possible low satellite mound to the southeast, measuring around 14m by 10m. The detail on Lidar imagery is not sufficient to confidently identify a barrow or other prehistoric earthwork, although it is possible. Alternatively the mound may be of natural origin.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 1:1250, 1951 (Map). SWX1844.

Tumulus (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 27-SEP-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F2 ASP 31-MAR-69 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<4> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458379 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 29 2024 3:58PM