Monument record MDO7319 - Bowl barrow, one of the Creech Heath Group, Church Knowle

'A' SY 92488402. Bowl barrow. <2>

The Creech Heath group of four bowl barrows lies in a west-east line above a south slope. One of these may have been the barrow on the Heath opened in the 19th century (see SY 98 SW 47) … No.46 (A). About 40 feet diameter by 3 feet high.
Almost destroyed. <4>

SY 92488402. Church Knowle 2. Four bowl barrows listed, details as above. <3>

A string of four round barrows occupying a prominent position on a low ridge in heathland. 'A'. This barrow is now submerged under dense, mature gorse bushes. The mound appears to have been gutted and the area has been disturbed by exploratory mining pits. <6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1925 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 925840) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 25-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<2.1> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 101 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 442 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(I) Creech Heath Group (SY 98 SW). Four barrows in a short straight W.-E. line above S. slope from slight ridge. Probably one of these, or perhaps (45), was built of turf and contained a probably primary cremation with a small, ruby-coloured object, possibly amber (LVG 5a; Warne, C.T.D., cpf, no. 43).
(46) Bowl (?) (92498402). Diam. about 40 ft., ht. about 3 ft. Almost destroyed.’

<5> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 229 (Index). SDO147.

'Situated on heathland covered in dense clump of gorse. Several large holes surround the site (either quarry holes or sink holes?). The mound has almost been completely destroyed by these features.'

<6> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F2 MJF 02-MAY-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457029 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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