Monument record MDO8147 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Seven Barrows group, Wareham Town

A bowl barrow, one of a linear group on a ridge. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about two feet high.

A bowl barrow, about 30ft in diameter, and 2 ft high. This barrow is part of the Seven Barrows Group, a group of eight barrows (scheduled as two separate groups of four) All but one at SY91218879 are in a near straight line running SW to NE on a small well-defined heathland ridge. It is thought that all except the barrow at SY91218879 were dug into by Shipp and Durden in 1844, but without any result. <2>

Visited by C D Drew on 1.11.1930, A Lloyd on 10.08.1979 and P Leech on 13.08.1987. The mound is composed of earth, sand and turf. It is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during construction of the monument, Somewhat reduced by ploughing . <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

456668

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 455 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Eight of the nine barrows are in the Seven Barrows Group. Six others have been claimed, but four (LVG 1, 2 4 and 5) are probably upcast from gravel digging, and nothing remains of the other two.

(AA) SEVEN BARROWS GROUP (SY 98 NW)). Eight barrows, all but (13 ) in a near-straight line S.W.-N.E. on the summit of a small but sharply-defined heathland ridge above the 100 ft. contour. A ninth possibly existed at 91168857 but no trace remains. Probably all but (13) were dug into by Shipp and Durden in 1844 without result (C.T.D., cpf, no.1).

(11) Bowl (91188874) 30 yds. N.N.E. of (10). Diam. about 30 ft., ht. about 2 ft.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456668 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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