Monument record MDO264 - Bowl barrow, Bincombe

Bowl barrow, ploughed almost flat. Visible as a cropmark 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 3 feet in height. <1>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill : G' Bowl (?) (67788593) 100 yds. N.N.E of 'F'. Ploughed almost flat. <3>

'G' SY 67788592 Diameter 23.0m, height (average) 1.3m. No visible ditch. All the barrows are in arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

Visible as a cropmark 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.

‘(31) Bowl (?) (67788593) 100 yds. N.N.E. of (30). Ploughed almost flat.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 01-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 464 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 23.0m, Ht. 1.3m. Ploughed down and under cultivation. Constructed of chalk and flint.1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1057-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11854.

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

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 6:37PM