Monument record MDO1285 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. In 1952 this barrow was described as around 50 feet in diameter with a mound about 9 feet high encircled by a ditch about 12 feet wide.

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. {1-2}

<1> 01-SEP-2004, NMR SY 5990/46-49 (23602/33-6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11154.

<2> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<3> 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: . . . (e) bowl barrow, 25 yards E. of (d), is 78 ft. in diam. and 9 ft. high with a ditch 12 ft. wide;’

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 71 (Index). SDO12304.

'Dimensions as above. The barrow is within the Guardianship area. 1/2/A.'

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451192 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 4:13PM