Monument record MDO252 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of an extensive linear barrow cemetery running along the ridgeway. In 1972 this monument was reported as 85 feet in diameter with a mound about 10 feet high, apparently with original chalk capping, and an encircling ditch around 105 feet in diameter. Has been ploughed. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal bank and central pit/ hollow on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 35 paces in diameter and 9 feet in height. <2>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: 'G' Ditched bowl (?) (66568645) 85 yds. S E of 'F'. Diam. 85 ft., ht. 10 ft., apparently with original chalk capping. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 1061, suggests ditch about 105 ft. in diam. Ploughed. <4>

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 a cropmark ring ditch with internal bank and central pit/ hollow 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.

‘(19) Ditched bowl (?) (66568645) 85 yds. S.E. of (18). Diam. 85 ft., ht. 10 ft., apparently with original chalk capping. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 1061, suggests ditch about 105 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document).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 405 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 36.0m, Ht. 0.8m. In arable, 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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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