Monument record MDO1298 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bell barrow

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

Barrow, between 400ft. and 500ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down. One of twenty. 77ft. in diam and 5ft. high. It appears to have a raised berm. {2}

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

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 129 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 61 (Index). SDO12304.

Mound now presents an even profile, no visible berm, reduced and spread by ploughing 0.9m high and 27.0m in diameter. The mound is now divided in two by an E-W fence line across its centre. On the N side the mound has been ploughed out and covered with a new growth of grass. On its S side it had been planted in kale and there was no trace of a berm. 1/4/D

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Aug 5 2019 9:40AM