Monument record MWX886 - Bowl barrow north of Brickfield Cottage, Hurn, Christchurch

The barrow has a mound which is 15 metres in diameter and 1.1 metres high, surrounded by a quarry ditch from which material was excavated during its construction. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature around 2 metres wide. The barrow is visible on 1940's aerial photographs and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Bowl barrow. Diam 16 paces; height 3ft. <2>

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 16 paces in diameter and 3 feet high. <3>

Bowl barrow, 14.5m in diam & 1.1m high. No certain traces of a ditch. Heather covered, in fair condition; surmounted by a boundary post and fence. <4>

No change: published NSL 1:2500 survey correct. <5>

A truncated barrow 12 metres diameter and approx 1 metre high, with a slightly hollowed top some 5 metres across. An iron girder boundary marker and a large fence post are inserted in the apparent centre
of the mound at SZ 1326397250. <6>

The barrow is visible on 1940s aerial photographs but is not clearly distinct <8>. It may be up to 16m wide but its edges are not clearly defined. A trackway leads into the feature on its northeast side and this may have caused or exaggerated the slightly hollow at its centre.

The feature is under scrubby vegetation on the edge of the tree line on current Google Earth imagery and is still visible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1907-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 13269724) Tumulus (OE)

<2> Hampshire Field Club, 1940, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14 (Serial). SDO16930.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1940, Hampshire Barrows; Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14, p361 (Article in serial). SWX3470.

<4> Burton, V J, Field Investigators Comments VJB, F1 VJB 26-OCT-1954 (Unpublished document). SWX3796.

<5> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F2 ASP 31-MAR-69 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<6> Aitken, P, 1976, A Survey of the Archaeological Sites On Sopley Common, Dorset (Unpublished document). SWX3841.

<7> DCMS, 1997, Scheduled Monument Notification 1997, 16/05/1997 (Scheduling record). SDO17426.

<8> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-47, RAF/CPE/UK/2102 RS 4282-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15554.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458420 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2024 4:52PM