Monument record MDO3664 - Bowl Barrow on Charlton Down, Charlton Marshall

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 40 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. This barrow may be one of those investigated by antiquarian H White in 1811. A barrow mound, 12m across, is visible as a low earthwork on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A bowl barrow, 13 paces diameter, 1 ft high. <2>

A grass covered bowl barrow with no visible surrounding ditch. Diameter 14.0m. and height 0.4m. <3>

Bowl Barrow (ST 86830082), on Charlton Down, 60 yards north of Combs Ditch (S0 80 SE 48); diam. 40ft ht 1ft. <4>

ST 868008; ST 872008. Two round barrows on Charlton Down. Scheduled. (see ST 80 SE 21 for other scheduled barrow). <5>

A barrow mound, 12m across, is visible as a low earthwork on lidar imagery <8> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. It is one of two adjacent mounds, the second is recorded separately in MDO45849.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 86830081)Tumulus

<2> 1954, Field Investigators Comments, 30/09/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX3839.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 99 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> 1954, Field Investigators Comments, 20/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SWX3839.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 59 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘Nine barrows in the S.W. of the parish form part of a barrow scatter that is continued in the adjacent parishes of Winterborne Whitechurch and Winterborne Kingston; they lie between 250 ft. and 400 ft. O.D., on the E-facing slopes of the Chalk downland between the valleys of the Stour and the Winterborne; all have been heavily ploughed. Three barrows on Charlton Down were opened by H. White in 1811 (Warne C.T.D., Pt. 3, Nos. 48, 49 and 50; Hutchins III, 525); one contained, near the surface, an inhumation, probably intrusive, with the feet to the E.; the second contained a cremation in an urn; the third contained a primary cremation in a globular urn set in a circular cist 2 ft. deep and 1½ ft. wide, cut into the chalk beneath (Barrow Diggers, 91-2 and Pl. 8; Arch. J. CXIX (1962), 57). A skull (Barrow Diggers, 81-2 and Pl.6) may be that of the skeleton found by White, or from a further barrow as suggested by Hutchins. The nine barrows are as follows – (12) Bowl (86830082), on Charlton Down, 60 yds. N. of Combs Ditch; diam. 40 ft., ht. 1 ft.’

<5> DOE, 1977, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 1977, 62 (Scheduling record). SDO17495.

<6> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 24/07/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205661 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:15PM