Monument record MDO916 - Bowl barrow on North Hill, Chifrome

One of two barrows, identified as probable bowl barrows. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 60 feet in diameter with a mound about three feet high.

Two bowl barrows: 'A' diameter 11 paces, height 2 feet. <2>

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

'A' - A probable round barrow with no visible ditch. It is at present under plough and large flints are exposed in the centre of the mound. It is much spread, the diameter being approximately 11.0m and height 0.4m. <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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Stagg, D R J, Field investigator's comments DRJS, F1 DRJS 28-JAN-56 (Unpublished document).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 | 1 | N.E. of Chilfrome Hill Barn | SY56849938 | 11 [Diam. in paces] | 2 [H’ght in feet] | On arable (1939)

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

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