Monument record MDO7255 - Bowl barrow, Chaldon Herring

'B' - A bowl barrow - ploughed. <2>

'B'. Ploughed out. The traces of this barrow are unsurveyable, and are denoted by an almost imperceptible rise in a farm track which crosses the site, which is under grass. This bowl barrow should read 'site of'. No surface finds were made during field investigation. <3>

SY 79648176. Chaldon Herring 21. SY 79848181. Chaldon Herring 22. Two bowl barrows listed. <5>

The Bronze Age barrow described is visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs of 1970 but could not be seen on later photographs. The barrow is sub-circular and measures 11 m in diameter. <8> This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 79638177; 'B' - SY 79848181) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 NVQ 05-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 441 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(41) Barrow (?) (SY 78 SE; 79858182) now destroyed.’

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 98 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 79638177 and SY 79848181) Tumuli (NR) (sites of) (NAT)

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0003-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13888.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454146 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 10 2024 12:02PM