Monument record MDO864 - Bowl barrow on Lyscombe Hill, Cheselbourne

A barrow group centred ST 730023. <2-4>

D. ST 73010232, A crescentic fragment of bank 6.0 m long by 3.0m wide by 0.4m high. It may be the remains of a small bowl-barrow, with the north portion destroyed by the modern plantation boundary.

Tumuli surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, Papworth MDJ, TWA 26 November 1985 (Index). SDO134.

‘Visible as faint rises in rough grassland; appear to have been ploughed in the past but not recently as there are clumps of gorse in the vicinity. To the NW lies deciduous woodland. The barrows within the wooded area are also small mounds.’

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

(ST 73140251) Tumulus (NR), (ST 72980227) Tumuli (NR), (ST 72950220) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 100 (Monograph). SDO132.

‘Group of small mounds - perhaps barrows; but three mounds of an analogous group (MELCOMBE HORSEY 2a) on the opposite side of Lyscombe Bottom have proved to be probably natural features.’

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 221 (Monograph). SDO136.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 25-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 GB 08-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202054 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 4 2024 3:54PM