Monument record MDO915 - Bowl barrow on North Hill, Chifrome

One of two barrows, identified as probable bowl barrows. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 33 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high.

Two bowl barrows: ... 'B' diameter 10 paces, height 2 ft. <2>

Barrow 'A' measuring 60 feet diameter by 3 ft. high. <3>

'B' - A possible round barrow. It is grass covered and there is no visible ditch. The diameter is approx. 9.0m. It is situated in a field which has a field system of IA/RB type (Dorset 30 SW 4). The mound overlies a lynchet approximately 0.6m. high and running in a N.-S direction, thus the mound is 0.8m high on the east, and 0.1m. high on the west. <4>

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

[SY 56849938 'A', SY 56909948 'B'] TUMULI [OE]

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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), 98 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(5) BARROWS, on North Hill nearly 1½ m. W. N. W. of the church, stand about 120 yards apart. The northern is about about 33ft. in diameter and 2½ ft. high; the southern is about 60 ft. in diameter and 3 ft. high. Both are much denuded, but probably they were bowl barrows.’

<4> Stagg, D R J, Field investigator's comments DRJS, F1 DRJS 28-JAN-56 (Unpublished document). SDO20236.

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

CHILFROME | 2 | N.E. of Chilfrome Hill Barn | SY56909948 | 10 [Diam. in paces] | 2 [H’ght in feet] | On arable (1939)

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450589 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 11:32AM