Monument record MDO265 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Bincombe

Ditched barrow suggested by circular ditch with small external bank about 100 feet in diameter. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'B' - SY 67898609. Ditched barrow suggested by circular ditch with small external bank about 100 feet in diameter visible on air photographs. <2>

'B': No visible trace on the ground. (4)

The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3288-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19925.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 90 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 438 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(32) Ditched barrow (?) (SY 68 NE; 67898609) suggested by circular ditch with small external bank about 100ft. in diam. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photograph (V.A.P. CPE/UK 1824:3289)'

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 466 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. Cultivated. 7/7/E

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1057-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11854.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452205 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 4:04PM