Monument record MDO1821 - Bowl Barrow one of East Hill Group, 200 yards north of White Horse

The East Hill Group of round barrows consists of: 'K' - (SY 71438450) Ditched bowl barrow, 65ft diameter x 8ft high with ditch circa 12ft wide. Grinsell's (Osmington No 1). RCHM suggest that one of the barrows, 'K', 'L' or 'M' could have contained a primary inurned cremation in a cist, and a fragmentary inhumation near the top.

'K' - SY 71438449. Under grass. Overall diameter 31.0m, diameter of mound 23.0m, height 3.0m. Ditch 4.0m wide and 0.2m deep, destroyed to the west of the hedge. A ditch is visible only in barrows 'D' and 'K'. A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,J,K, and Q re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Possible site of a Broinze Age bowl barrow, visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs <6>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 713845) Tumuli (NR) (Eleven shown)

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

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 457 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(30) Ditched bowl (71438450) 100 yds. E. of last. Diam. 65 ft., ht. 8 ft. Ditch about 12 ft. wide.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 20-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<6> 11-JUN-1978, NMR OS/78080 156-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11753.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454360 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 1:15PM