Monument record MDO5691 - Bowl Barrow, Hampreston (formerly in West Parley, Ferndown Town

A bowl barrow recorded in 1975 as being around 75 feet in diameter with a mound about 6 feet high. The earthwork has been damaged by digging, possibly in the course of antiquarian investigation. The barrow is one of a dispersed group of barrows on the heathland of Parley Common. It was digitally plotted from aeerial photographs during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Bowl barrow, damaged by digging; diameter 75 ft, height 6 ft. <2>

A bowl barrow recorded in 1975 as being around 75 feet in diameter with a mound about 6 feet high. The earthwork has been damaged by digging, possibly in the course of antiquarian investigation. The barrow is one of a dispersed group of barrows on the heathland of Parley Common. It was digitally plotted from aeerial photographs <3> during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1971 (Map). SDO17396.

(SU 09510076) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 30 (Monograph). SDO129.

'At least fourteen barrows are scattered in the central part of the parish; they lie on the heathland of the Bagshot Beds, mostly just above the 100 ft. contour. One of them, possibly (36), was excavated in 1847 and yielded a cremation in an urn, probably of collared type (C.T.D., Pt. 2, No. 44; Hutchins, 438; Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 11). Cremation cemeteries have been discovered in the same part of the parish. One found c. 1926 on Keeper's Hill, Stapehill (about 057999) appears to have contained several cremations in urns, now lost (Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 53). One found at Stapehill in 1934 comprised some fifteen cremations associated with one globular, two bucket and six barrel urns (Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 18, 52); the urns are now in Red House Museum, Christchurch. Although these cemeteries were in the vicinity of barrows they do not appear to have been directly associated with them. Other urnfields have been found in associateion with recently excavated barrows at Simon's Ground (36-40). A barrow recorded E. of Holmwood Park (about 07359880) has not been located (Dorset Barrows, 113; Hampreston No. 7). … (45) Bowl (09520076), formerly in Wst Parley (Dorset Barrows, 140; West Parley No. 1), has been damaged by digging; diam. 75 ft., ht. 6 ft.'

<3> Royal Air Force, 21-SEP-1954, RAF 58/1567 F21 0226-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16157.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213131 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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