Monument record MDO261 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow on the former parish boundary between Dorchester and Upwey, crossed and parly destroyed by a road. This monument was recorded in 1972 as being around 80 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high. Visible on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 28 paces in diameter and 4¼ feet in height. <1>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill : 'D' Bowl (?) (67538593) 90 yds. N.N.W. of 'C'. Diam. About 80 ft., ht. 4 ft. Cut by road and crossed by former parish boundary with Upwey. <3>

'D' SY 67528592 Original diameter 28.0m, height 1.6m Southern half cut away by modern road. 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: 'D' SY 67528593 This barrow has been severely eroded and appears only as a vague central mound. The archive produced by the project (Collection UID 932274) is held by the RCHME. <6>

Visible on aerial photographs <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (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, 457 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(28) Bowl (?) (67538593) 90 yds. N.N.W. of (27). Diam. about 80 ft., ht. 4 ft. Cut by road and crossed by former parish boundary with Upwey.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 01-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 460 (Index). SDO12304.

Original diameter 28.0m, ht. 1.6m. Cut away by road and ploughed away on N side. 7/5/E

<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 Crutchley, Simon, RCHME: A354 Dorchester to Weymouth Project, 01-OCT-1993 (Unpublished document).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> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3289-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11856.

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

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 4:44PM