Monument record MDO1287 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. In 1952 this barrow was reported as being around 24 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. {1-2}

<1> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<2> 01-SEP-2004, NMR SY 5990/46-49 (23602/33-6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11154.

<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: . . . (g) mound, possibly the remains of a bowl barrow, 22 yards E.N.E. of (f), is about 24 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high;’

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 74 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Dimensions as above. The barrow is within the Guardianship area. 7/2/B.’

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jul 22 2019 11:27AM