Monument record MDO8754 - Christchurch: Bowl barrow at St Catherine's Hill

Bowl barrow with fir and stumps on it, no visible ditch. The barrow is visible as a banked sub-circular mound on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. The OS 1st Edition map records the remains of a post medieval watchtower at this location. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A bowl barrow; diameter 17 paces, height 5 ft. (2)

A bowl barrow, 14.5m diam., and 1.0m high in fair condition with firs and stumps on it. No visible ditch. (3)

No change. Published 1:2500 correct. (4)

The barrow is visible as a 12.5m by 14.5m banked sub-circular mound on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (5 and 6). The OS 1st Edition map records the remains of a post medieval watchtower at this location (7). Whether this indicates that the feature is a post medieval mound or a barrow re-used as a watchtower is unknown.

The earthwork is under tree cover and not visible on a 2014 VAP (8).

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1931-38 (Map). SWX1540.

Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1940, Hampshire Barrows; Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 14 (Article in serial). SWX3470.

<3> Woodhouse, W C, Various, Field Investigators Comments WCW, F1 WCW 15-JUL-54 (Unpublished document). SWX3798.

<4> Aldsworth, F G, Various, Field Investigators Comments FGA, F2 FGA 20-MAR-69 (Unpublished document). SWX1161.

<5> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3271-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15623.

<6> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<8> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<9> Jefferies, Jeff, 1999, The Barrows of Christchurch. Their Past, Present and Future, Appendix 1. Barrow Record 11 (Unpublished document). SDO20590.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458477 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2024 3:56PM