Monument record MDO262 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1972 this monument was reported as being around 63 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal bank and central pit/ hollow on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 25 paces in diameter and 2 feet in height. <1>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill : E Bowl (?) (67608584) 50 yds. E of 'C'. Diam. 63 ft., ht. 3 ft. <3>

'E' SY 67598583 Diameter 25.0m, height 1.0m. 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: 'E' SY 67598584 The central area of this barrow appears as a vague depression with a slight berm and surrounding shallow ditch. Barrows 'F' and 'G' fell outside the survey area. The archive produced by the project (Collection UID 932274) is held by the RCHME. <6>

Visible as a cropmark 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.

‘(29) Bowl (?) (67608584) 50 yds. E. of (27). Diam. 63 ft., ht. 3 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 01-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 462 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 25.0m, Ht. 1.0m. Ploughed down in ley pasture. Visible as a low rise. 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 Crutchley, Simon, RCHME: A354 Dorchester to Weymouth Project, 01-OCT-1993 (Unpublished document).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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 6:32PM