Monument record MDO5536 - Bowl barrow, St Giles's Park, Edmondsham

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Summary

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, approximately 32m in diameter and 3 meters high. The barrow is visible as a low banked earthwork within woodland to the northeast of St Giles's Park. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

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(Centred SU 04621156) Tumuli (NR) <2> (15) BOWL BARROW (04621155), among trees, on a broad flat-topped Chalk ridge, lies at about 230 ft. above O.D. beside the Cranborne-Wimborne road; diam. 100 ft., ht. 11 ft. <4> The barrow is visible as a low banked 32m in diameter earthwork within woodland to the northeast of St Giles's Park on a 1989 aerial photograph <5>. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <1>XY Monograph: Grinsell, L V. 1959. Dorset Barrows. 108. [Mapped feature: #342903 ]
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map 6in. 6 inch to 1 mile. 1963.
  • <3> Serial: 1963. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 29. Vol 29. 395-425.
  • <4> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1975. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East). 18.
  • <5> Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 05-MAY-89. OS89135 V 284-5.
  • <6> Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 213797.

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Location

Grid reference SU 0462 1155 (point) (3 map features)
Map sheet SU01SW
Civil Parish Edmondsham; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 3 006 015
  • Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SU 01 SW 30
  • Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 213797
  • Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Edmondsham 15

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Mar 1 2023 4:53PM

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