Monument record MDO272 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1972 this monument was reported as being visible only as a slight rise. It is thought to be a barrow opened by Charles Warne, who found 4 inverted collared urns beneath a cairn, and a number of later cremation burials within the mound. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. Bowl barrow, now only a slight rise.

Bowl barrow (68158578). Now only a slight rise. It probably contained cremations in four inverted Early-Middle Bronze Age collared urns in a cist beneath a cairn. There were two other similar urns, at least one of which was inverted, and two secondary urns. <2> <4>

Ploughing has reduced the barrow to a flat stony patch; in pasture. <5>

Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. <8> The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. Bowl barrow, now only a slight rise.

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), 52-3 (Monograph). SWX8166.

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

‘Circular pit just N. Probably opened by CW: primary deposit of 4 inverted E/MBA urns in cist beneath cairn; 2 subsequent primary E/MBA urns (one inverted, position of the other unknown), and 2 secondary LBA urns (both upright). CTD (mopr), no. 42 and pl. I, nos. 16-20; Ant. J xiii, 444.’

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

(SY 68158578) 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.

‘(39) Bowl (?) (68158578) 150 yds. N.E. of (38). Now only a slight rise. It probably contained cremations in four inverted Early-Middle Bronze Age collared urns in a cist beneath a cairn. There were two other similar urns, at least one of which was inverted, and two secondary urns (Abercromby II, figs. 5, 5a, 6c; Ant. J. XIII (1933), 444; P.P.S. XXVII (1961), 294, nos. 17–20).’

<5> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F1 JWS 12-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 481 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace of this barrow in pasture (ley). 7/7/E

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1057-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11854.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452096 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 4:09PM