Monument record MDO251 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of an extensive linear barrow cemetery running along the ridgeway. In 1972 this monument was recorded as 80 feet in diameter with a mound about 6 feet high, with an encircling ditch about 100 feet in diameter. Visible as two concentric ring ditches, with adjacent internal banks and a central pit, on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 30 paces in diameter and 6 feet in height. <2>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: 'F' Ditched bowl (?)(66518650) 105 yds. S. of 'E'. Diam. 80 ft. ht. 6 ft. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 1061, suggests ditch about 100 ft. in diam. Ploughed. <4>

F SY 66528649. Bowl (?) barrow, diameter 34.0m, height 1.7m. G SY 66578645. Bowl (?) barrow, diameter 36.0m, height 1.8m. 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 two concentric ring ditches, with adjacent internal banks and a central pit, 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.

‘(18) Ditched bowl (?) (66518650) 105 yds. S. of (17). Diam. 80 ft., ht. 6 ft. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 1061, suggests ditch about 100 ft. in diam. Ploughed.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document).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 403 (Index). SDO12304.

34.0m diameter, Ht.1.7m. Ploughed, reduced and spread. 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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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