Monument record MDO263 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Bincombe

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill : F Bowl (?) (67738585) 150 yds.E of 'E'. Diam. 80 ft., ht. 5 ft. <2>

'F' SY 67738583 Diameter originally 26.0m, height 0.8m. Mutilated on south side. No visible ditch. All the barrows are in arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

Visible as a earthwork on aerial photographs <7>. 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.

‘(30) Bowl (?) (67738585) 150 yds. E. of (29). Diam. 80 ft., ht. 5 ft. At S.W. end of alignment of five barrows on spur running N.E., others being Bincombe (31) and (33) and Winterborne Herringston (3) and (4).’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 01-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 463 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter originally 26.0m, Ht. 0.8m. Mutilated on S side. Situated in regularly ploughed ley pasture when visited. 1/4/D

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 07-AUG-1995, NMR SY6686/7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11844.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452017 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 6:34PM