Monument record MDO274 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Bincombe

Bowl barrow? ploughed flat. Visible as a cropmark mound 20m in diameter on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Site of a bowl barrow, part of a group on Bincombe Down just south of the Winterborne Came parish boundary. Listed by Grinsell as Bincombe 8 and by RCHME as Bincombe 41.Formerly described by RCHME as having been ploughed flat, in 1980 the Ordnance Survey described it as being nearly ploughed out, and visible only as an amorphous ground swelling. RCHME have suggested that some of the barrows in this general area were excavated by Warne in the mid-19th century.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 15 paces in diameter and 1/4 foot in height, and in arable. <1>

Four barrows south of the Ridgeway: 'B' Bowl barrow 60 feet diameter by 4 1/2 feet high, a core of earth and flints embedded in a chalky circumference. <3>

'B' SY 68428569. Bowl barrow of diameter 24.0m. And height 1.5m. No visible evidence of a ditch. All barrows in arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Visible as a cropmark mound 20m in diameter 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.

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

('B' - SY 68428569; 'C' - SY 68508569; 'D' - SY 68538568) 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, 439 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(41) Bowl (?) (68468569). Ploughed flat.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 490 (Index). SDO12304.

Only an amorphous ground swelling. In cultivated field. 1/7/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3289-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11856.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452099 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 11:57AM