Monument record MDO24649 - Double Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a pair adjacent to one another. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photos.

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of two adjacent to one another (MDO3137 & MDO24649) and part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Double bowl barrow, mounds respectively are 25ft and 40ft. in diam and 2.5ft. and 3.5ft. high, are joined by a slight bank 1ft. High {1-2}.

Double bowl barrow, by a low ridge. Western mound 8.0m. diameter and 1.0m.high, eastern mound 13.0m. diameter and 1.0m. high . No visible ditch {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs {4-8}, measuring approximately 6.6 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 466 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<5> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM64) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11944.

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<7> 1-9-2004, NMR SY6286/10 (23722/03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11948.

<8> 12-5-2002, PGA SY6287 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11951.

<9> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 274 (Index). SDO12304.

West mound 8.0m diameter and 1.0m high. East mound 13.0m diameter and 1.0m high. Moss grass and heather covered. 1/2/B

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 6:24PM