Monument record MDO8347 - Bowl barrow, Cranes Moor, Wool

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high, and covered in trees.

A & B Bowl barrows. No details given. <2>

'A' has a diameter of 9.0 metres and a height of 0.8 metres. It is flat topped and has no surrounding ditch. Slightly pitted on top and covered with heather and coniferous trees. Bowl barrow. <4>

'A' - (49) SY 82228912. Bowl barrow, 30ft diameter and 3ft high, probably disturbed on top, and tree-covered. <5>

SY 823892. Two round barrows south-west of Cambrai House. Scheduled. <6>

Bowl barrow 'A' now measures 12.5 metres north-east to south-west and 11.5 metres north-west to south-east and is 1.1 metres high, with traces of a surrounding ditch to the south-east, 1.5 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep. A recent shallow hole 1.2 metres across has been cut in its top. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <7>

SY 82228912; SY 82198908. Two bowl barrows on the edge of Crane's Moor. Scheduling amended. <8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

Tumuli (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 158 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 25-SEP-62 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 474 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(49) Bowl (SY 88 NW; 82228912) 50 yds. N.N.E. of (48). Diam. 30 ft., ht. 3 ft. Probably disturbed on top, and treecovered.'

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 75 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 06-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 24-JUL-2002 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455277 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 12:30PM