Monument record MDO8746 - Bowl barrow at St Catherine's Hill, Christchurch

A heather-covered bowl barrow damaged in its northern quadrant by a brick structure with a concrete cover. The barrow is faintly visble on 1940s aerial photographs and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A bowl barrow; diameter 25 paces, height 4 feet. (2)

A heather-covered bowl barrow, 17.5m diameter, 1.8 high, on the edge of a gravel pit. No visible ditch. The north quadrant is mutilated by a brick structure with concrete cover 2m square. (3)

No change: published NSL 1:2500 survey correct. (4)

In 1976 as part of an emergency earthmoving effort minor pits in the barrow were filled in.(5)

The barrow is faintly visible on 1940s aerial photographs and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project (6). The feature is under low scrub and not visible on current Google Earth imagery.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1988, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1987, 134 (Serial). SDO87.

‘St Catherine’s Hill. In January 1976 the author conducted emergency earthmoving funded by Christchurch Council to give some protection to barrows eroding into old quarry workings on St Catherin’s Hill. The barrow numbers are the Ordnance Survey Record Card series … SZ 19NW23. Minor pits in the barrow were filled in.’

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1931-38 (Map). SWX1540.

Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1940, Hampshire Barrows; Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14, p363 (Article in serial). SWX3470.

<3> Woodhouse, W C, Various, Field Investigators Comments WCW, F1 WCW 15-JUL-54 (Unpublished document). SWX3798.

<4> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F2 ASP 31-MAR-69 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<6> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3171 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15486.

<7> Jefferies, Jeff, 1999, The Barrows of Christchurch. Their Past, Present and Future, Appendix 1. Barrow Record 5 (Unpublished document). SDO20590.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458439 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 24 2024 11:47AM