Monument record MDO284 - Bowl barrow south of Came Wood, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Bincombe

This barrow was 25 paces in diameter and 3 feet in height. <1>

Three round barrows north of Bincombe Hill: (C) Bowl (?) (68748502) 65 yds. North of ('B'). Diameter 90ft., height 4 1/2 ft. <3>

Three probably bowl barrows: 'C' SY 68738502. Diameter 24.0m., height 0.7m. No visible ditch. All in arable - at present under pasture. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

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, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

SY 68738502) Tumulus (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.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 68728493) SY 68748496) Tumuli (NR)

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 05-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 516 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 24.0m, ht 0.7m. No visible ditch. Ploughed over in ley pasture. Constructed of flint and chalk. 1/3/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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 3286-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12009.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452122 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 11:25AM