Monument record MDO258 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Bincombe

Bowl barrow, 95ft. in diam and 7ft. high. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal bank on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 40 paces in diameter and 6 feet in height, and on arable. <1>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill : 'B' Bowl (?) (67498581) 100yds. E. of 'A'. Diam. 95 ft., ht. 7 ft. <3>

'B' SY 67498581 Diameter 39.0m, height 2.1m (average). No visible ditch. All the barrows are in arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A RCHME level 3 air photographic interpretation project (Event UID 932322) was carried out on this monument in October 1993. In several cases the marks seen on the photographs were such as would normally be associated with a shallow depression, but examination on the ground which post-dates the photographs makes it quite clear that they all still possess relief. The changes noted were as follows: 'B' SY 67498581 This appears as a central mound, still with some relief, with a berm and surrounding shallow ditch.The archive produced by the project (Collection UID 932274) is held by the RCHME. <6>

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

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

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

(Centred at SY 67638585) Tumuli (NR) Tumulus (NR) (twice)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 456 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(26) Bowl (?) (67498581) 100 yds. E. of (25). Diam. 95 ft., ht. 7 ft.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 01-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 459 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 39.0m, Ht. 2.1m (average). Ploughed down and in ley pasture. Reduced and spread. 1/3/C

<6> Crutchley, Simon, RCHME: A354 Dorchester to Weymouth Project, 01-OCT-1993 (Unpublished document). SDO20404.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> 26-MAR-1968, NMR SY6785/3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11857.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452017 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 4:37PM