Monument record MDO1282 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. In 1952 this barrow was described as being around 27 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high.

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <4>

Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 129 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(7) BARROWS etc. (Plate 106), between the 400 ft. and 500 ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down and on the E. side of the parish, are twenty in number: . . . (b) bowl barrow, immediately N.E. of (a), is 27 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high; it fills the ditch of (a) on the N.E. side;’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 58 (Index). SDO12304.

‘No visible trace of this barrow which is situated in a regularly ploughed field freshly planted with grass. 7/7/E.’

<4> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2024 7:08AM