Monument record MDO909 - Bowl barrow on Chilcombe Hill, Chilcombe

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on the south end of Chilcombe Hill, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this monument was reported as being 39 to 44 feet in diameter and a mound 2½ feet high with a flat stone on top.

TUMULUS:- Sarsen 5 ft long lying on top of this tumulus [at A]. <2>

'A' A bowl barrow, diameter 18 paces, height 3ft. The sarsen on the mound is 5ft long, 2 1/2 ft wide and 1ft thick.
'B' A bowl barrow, diameter 18 paces, height 4 ft. <3>

A: SY 52849167 ... A. A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow 16.0m in diametr, 1.8m high on the S.W side, and 0.3m high on the NE. The mound is flat on top, where a sarsen 1.6m x 1.0m x 0.4m is situated a little off the centre of the mound. <5>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow on the south end of Chilcombe Hill, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <7-8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

Tumuli [OE]

<2> Crawford, O G S, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: O G S Crawford, 17-3-50 (Verbal communication). SWX8206.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> 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 … Outside the enclosure to the S. are two further mounds, probably also the remains of barrows; (b), about 80 yards away, is 39 to 44 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high and has on the top a flat stone about 5 ft. by 2¾ ft.’

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 06-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 100 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3155-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11391.

<8> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY5291/15-17 (24501/25-7) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11390.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451326 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 4 2023 11:58AM