Monument record MDO6760 - Bowl Barrow, Canford Heath, Poole

Bowl barrow, 15 m in diameter and 1.6 m high, with slight traces of a surrounding quarry ditch visible, on Canford Heath. The barrow is visible as a low mound on 1940s aerial photographs and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

The barrow is visible as a low mound on 1940s aerial photographs. The mound is around 16m in diameter and there is no evident sign of a surrounding ditch; the barrow lies within an area of shallow extraction (MDO41156) which extends right up to its west, south and east sides. The barrow was digitally plotted from a 1946 aerial photograph by the Dorset Stour NMP project. <3>

(a) (SZ 03449615) Diameter 47ft. Height 4.5ft. Ditch slight but well defined, unopened.

(b) (SZ 03439613) Diameter 45ft. Height 2ft. No ditch, depressed flat top. <2>

A heather covered bowl barrow, diameter 15.0m, height 1.6m, with unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Shallow surface diggings - apparently old ones - extend almost up to the edge of the mound on the south-west and south-east sides. <4>

Bowl barrows. <5>

RCHM <6> state that barrow 'A' to the north-east is destroyed and barrow 'B' is extant, the reverse of that stated by <4>. The surviving barrow is 43 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, hollowed on top, now damaged and isolated in a gravel pit.

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(SZ 03439613; SZ 03449615) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Wallace, W G, 1919-1923, Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society 6 and private notes (Article in serial). SWX3467.

<3> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3256-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16048.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 14-NOV-1955 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 448 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(379) Bowl (?) (SZ 09 NW; 03459615) 15 yds. N.E. of (378). Diam. about 40 ft., ht. about 4.5 ft. Destroyed.'

<7> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SZ 03439613) Tumulus (NR) (Site of) (NAT); (SZ 03449615) Tumulus (NR)

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457997 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 6 2025 1:54PM