Monument record MDO246 - Bowl barrow on Ridgeway Hill, Bincombe

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 36 paces in diameter and 10 feet in height, and noted that it was uncertain whether it was originally a bowl- or bell-barrow. <2>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: 'A'. Ditched bowl (66368658). Diam. 96 ft., ht. 12 ft., probably with original chalk capping. Ploughed. <4>

A SY 66368658. Bowl barrow, diameter 37.0m. Height 3.5m. All these barrows are in arable and have been ploughed. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 40-47 (Serial). SDO25.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 92 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 665865) Tumuli (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 468 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(13) Ditched bowl (66368658) 100 yds. S.E. of last. Diam. 96 ft., ht. 12 ft., probably with original chalk capping. Ploughed. (LVG, plate III.)’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 398 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 37.0m, Ht. 3.5m. (A recent capping of dark soil with flint on top of chalk). Field ploughed and under crops. Barrow regularly ploughed. 1/3/C

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> 07-AUG-1995, NMR SY6686/7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11844.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452011 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 12:49PM