Monument record MDO24732 - Mound on Loscombe Down, Winterbourne Steepleton

A mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is recorded as a tumulus on the modern OS map and is considered likely to be the site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow.

Group of round barrows: … `F` Doubtful pond barrow 36 feet diameter by 1/2 foot deep, with outer bank 11 feet across by 1/2 foot high. More likely to be a hut platform associated with a nearby settlement. <3>

`F` SY 61618904. Circular depression of diameter 14.0m. and depth 0.7m. with 4.0m. wide bank downhill side. As indicated by RCHM, it is probably a hut-platform associated with the overlying settlement. `B`, `D` and `F` re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. Detail of `A` deleted from MSD. <4>

A mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <5-6>, measuring approximately 9.5 metres in diameter. It is recorded as a tumulus on the modern OS map and is considered likely to be the site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 173 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

`F` - SY 61608904) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 473 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 28-MAR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4279-81 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11791.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3095-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11865.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452348 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 22 2023 10:07AM