Monument record MDO267 - Disc barrow west of Cerne Down, Bincombe

Bronze Age disc barrow. Opened by Charles Warne, who found a cremation burial. Visible on aerial photographs as a 16m diameter cropmark ring ditch with internal mound and central pit. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Two disc barrows <4> or possibly saucer barrows <2> situated about 300 yards north of the Ridgeway.

'A'. Now only an indefinite mound 1 foot high. Identified by RCHM as Warne's No 1, a disc barrow in which he found a primary cremation under an inverted bucket urn covered by a flat stone. (Grinsell lists 'B' as Warne's No. 1, and 'A' as Warne's No. 2). <1> <2> <4>

'A' SY 68078624. A mound of diameter 18.0m. And height 0.5m., with no visible evidence of a ditch. Under pasture (Diagnostic - features, ploughed out). 'A' Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Visible on aerial photographs <8> as a 16m diameter cropmark ring ditch with internal mound and central pit. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866) (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 90, 168 (Monograph). SDO132.

‘108? Probable primary cremation with LBA bucket-urn (in fragments when found). The barrow may possibly have been a saucer-barrow. CTD (mopr), no. 2; Ant J xiii, 443.’

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 68078624) Tumulus (NR)

<4> 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.

‘(34) (68078625). On crest of slope to N., now only an indefinite mound 1 ft. high. It contained a primary cremation under an inverted bucket urn covered by a flat stone.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 467 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, Ht. 0.5m. Reduced and spread by ploughing. Under grain crop. 1/4/C

<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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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). SDO12019.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452128 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 3:25PM