Monument record MDO278 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Bincombe

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 24 paces in diameter and 7 feet in height. <1>

Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill: (B) Bowl (68988460) continuing alignment of (A) 25 yds. to the north west. Diam. 69 ft. ht. 9 ft. Disturbed in centre.

Warne's No 43 was probably the largest mound of the triple barrow 'A' and hit No 6 was almost certainly one of the others near it. <1-2>

'B' SY 68988460. Bowl barrow; diameter 23.0m and height 2.4m. No visible ditch. Central hollow. Barrows A, B, C and D are in pasture and have been ploughed. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

This group of barrows is probably part of those excavated by the Rev J J Smith in 1842. <6>

The site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <8-9>. A large robber pit is visible cutting in from the north-east side. The site, which forms part of a larger linear barrow cemetery, was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (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, 439 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(45) Bowl (68988460) continuing alignment of (44) 25 yds. to the N.W. Diam. 69 ft., ht. 9 ft. Disturbed in centre.’

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(Centred SY 690845) Tumuli [NR]

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 04-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 510 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 23.0m, ht. 2.4m. No visible ditch. Unploughed in permanent pasture. 1/2/A

<6> Fitzgerald, R J, RCHME Fieldworker's Comments RJF, R1 RJF 08-OCT-1991 (Unpublished document). SWX2638.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3242 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11964.

<9> 06-DEC-2006, NMR SY6984/14-17 (24498/35-41) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11965.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452697 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 6:39PM