Monument record MDO908 - Bowl barrow on Chilcombe Hill, Chilcombe

Within the hillfort is a bowl barrow, 12 paces in diameter and 4 ft. high. It has a hollow in the top. <2>

[Similar information]. <3>

A ditchless grass covered bowl barrow with a slight depression in the top of the mound. Diameter of barrow 12.0m., height 1.4m. <4>

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 12 paces in diameter and 4 feet high, with a hole in the centre. <5>

Bronze Age bowl barrow on Chilcombe Hill, visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY52989209] TUMULUS [O.E.]

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 97-98 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(3) HILL FORT, on top of Chilcombe Hill … Within the enclosure and nearly adjoining the N. rampart is a mound (a), probably a barrow, 38 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 06-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 100 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3155-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11391.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451378 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 3 2023 5:02PM