Monument record MDO1299 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: disc barrow

Barrow, between 400ft. and 500ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down. One of twenty. Probable disc barrow, 31ft. in diam and 1.5ft. high with traces of a ditch and perhaps an outer bank, much worn. {1}

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

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

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

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 60 (Index). SDO12304.

10.0m diameter and 0.2m high. Flint nodules and broken flint visible across the mound. Planted in kale. 7/6/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Apr 26 2018 3:35PM