Monument record MDO1371 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

One of a group of five Bronze Age round barrows. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 20 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}

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 38 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) … (b), 40 yards N.E. of (a), is about 20 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high;’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 116 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 65 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Now visible on the ground only as a scatter of large flint nodules and possibly as a faint swelling. Flint concentration approx.. 13.0m in diam. Planted in grass. 7/6/E.’

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5098-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11153.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Dec 22 2016 3:02PM