Monument record MDO775 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bushy Eweleaze Group, Charminster

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 the monument was recorded as being irregular and much-disturbed, with a diameter of 39 feet and a surviving height of one and a half feet. The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 25m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

SY 67959625. Possible barrow, now roughly oval and 13 x 8 paces diameter and 1.5ft high situated on Bushy Eweleaze. Partly destroyed. <1>

SY 67959625. Barrow? consisting of an irregular and much disturbed mound, 39ft by 25ft diameter and 1.5ft high. <2>

Only the lynchet on which this mound stood now remains. <3>

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular 25m in diameter earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 99 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 73 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(37) Barrow? (67959625), 240 yds. N.E. of (36) on a slight S.E. slope; mound irregular and much disturbed; diam. 39 ft. by 24 ft., ht 1½ ft,'

<3> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 09-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452997 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 10:42AM