Monument record MDO7426 - Bronze Age round barrow, Challow Hill, Corfe Castle

Small bowl barrow. <2>

This tumulus has a diameter of 11.0m. and a height of 0.6m. with no surrounding ditch. It is somewhat spread and is surmounted by numerous small stones. Bowl barrow. Not a cairn. <3>

SY 96378237. Bowl barrow, 40ft diameter and 2ft high on spine of East Hill. Probably ploughed. <5>

A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 10.4m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery of Challow Hill, Corfe Castle <7>. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1929 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 96388237) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 24-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 16-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 443 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(200) Bowl (SY 98 SE; 96378237; Fig. p. 97) on spine of East Hill. Diam. 40 ft., ht. 2 ft. Turf-covered, though has probably been ploughed. Among Ancient Field Group (27).’

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 47 (Index). SDO147.

'Bowl barrow. Diam. 12.2m and Ht. 0.6m. Ploughed down in a regularly ploughed field. See RAF/VAP/1821:2409. British Gas AP//1979//9706-17. OS SY98SE26. 7/7/C'

<7> Geomatics, 2011, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13637.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456818 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 16 2023 7:47PM