Monument record MDO1291 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 132 feet in diameter with a mound about 12 feet high, surrounded by a ditch. The mound has been disturbed, presumably in the course of antiquarian investigation.

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

Barrow, between the 400ft. and 500ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down.

Flaxman, E W, 1996, A Radar Survey of Pond Barrows (Unpublished document). SDO16401.

<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) … (k) bowl, or perhaps bell barrow, immediately S.E. of (j) and on the parish-boundary, is 132 ft. in diam. and 12 ft. high with a ditch 16 ft. wide, there are traces of a possible berm; it has been much disturbed.'

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 89 (Index). SDO12304.

'Dimensions as above. This barrow is within the Guardianship area. 1/2/B.'

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jul 29 2019 9:31AM