Monument record MDO8828 - Bowl barrow south east of The Mount, Hurn, Christchurch

Mound on the summit of a low broad ridge. Possibly natural but probably a bowl barrow, 17 paces diameter by 1 metre high with no visible ditch. <1>

Bowl barrow on Avon Common, 115 metres south east of The Mount, one of a dispersed group of barrows on the heathland in this area. Situated on the summit of a low ridge, the barrow has a mound which is 20 metres in diameter and 1.3 metres high, surrounded by a quarry ditch from which material was excavated during its construction. This has become filled in over the years but survives as a buried feature approximately 3 metres wide. <2>

<1> Aitken, P, 1976, A Survey of the Archaeological Sites On Sopley Common, Dorset (Unpublished document). SWX3841.

<2> DCMS, 1997, Scheduled Monument Notification 1997, 06/08/1997 (Scheduling record). SDO17426.

<3> Jefferies, Jeff, 1999, The Barrows of Christchurch. Their Past, Present and Future, Bell barrow 34 (Unpublished document). SDO20590.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458510 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 17 2024 11:26AM