Monument record MDO6294 - Bowl barrow with intrusive air raid shelter, Wimborne St Giles

A Bronze Age round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow situated in Drive Plantation, within the grounds of St Giles's Park. It was described by RCHME as a mound damaged by cultivation but measuring 80 feet in diameter and 9 feet in height. RCHME noted a hole dug into the centre. This suggests that this barrow has been dug into by antiquarians. In 1954, an Ordnance Survey field investigator was informed that a small chamber in the south side of the barrow was a former air-raid shelter for the use of the occupants of the adjoining house, Cranborne Lodge.

(SU 04531206) Tumulus (NR). <3>

SU 04531206 Bowl barrow, damaged by cultivation, has a hole dug into the centre; diameter 80 feet, height 9 feet. <4>

A small chamber in the south side of the barrow is a former air-raid shelter for use of the inhabitants of the adjoining house (Cranborne Lodge). <1>

Situated in Drive Plantation, within the grounds of St Giles's Park (SU 01 SW 107).

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 14-MAY-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<1.1> Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, Mrs Leader Cranborne Lodge (Unpublished document). SWX999.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 146 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 101 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(46) Bowl (04531206), damaged by cultivation, has a hole dug into the centre; diam. 80 ft., ht. 9 ft.'

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213793 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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