Monument record MDO271 - Bell barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bell barrow. In 1972 this monument was reported as 65 feet in diameter with a mound about 11 feet high, with berm 8 feet wide and ditch about 15 feet wide and 1 foot deep. Ploughed. Visible as an earthwork 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 8 feet in height, and noted traces of a ditch to the east of bell-barrow. <1>

Round Barrows: … 'C' Bell (68028570) 75 yds. E.S.E. 'B'. Diam. 65 ft., ht. 11 ft., with berm 8 ft. wide and ditch about 15 ft. wide and 1 ft. deep. Ploughed. <3>

'C' SY 68038569 Bell barrow, diameter 40.0m overall, height 2.2m. Ditch 5.5m wide and 0.3m deep; berm 3.0m wide. The ditch has been destroyed on the north quadrant. Re-surveyed. at 1:2500 on MSD. See ground photographs. <4>

Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <7>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

'D. E. of bell-barrow.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SY 67968572) Tumuli (NR)

<3> 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.

‘(38) Bell (68028570) 75 yds. E.S.E. of (37). Diam. 65 ft., ht. 11 ft., with berm 8 ft. wide and ditch about 15 ft. wide and 1 ft. deep. Ploughed.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 480 (Index). SDO12304.

Bell, diameter 40.0m overall, ht. 2.2m, ditch 5.5m wide and 0.3m deep. Berm 3.0m wide. The ditch has been destroyed on the N quadrant. In permanent pasture. 1/2/B

<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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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, 452093 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 4:53PM