Monument record MDO285 - Bowl barrow south of Came Wood, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Bincombe

Probable Bronze Age barrow showing on aerial photographs as a crop mark mound 19m in diameter. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY 68978515. Probable bowl barrow. Now ploughed out. <1> <3>

This barrow was unknown in both diameter and height. On arable 1953; no trace 1950 (RCHM). <5>

Probable Bronze Age barrow showing on aerial photographs <6> as a crop mark mound 19m in diameter. 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 68968514) Tumulus (NR) (site of) (NAT)

<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> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 518 (Index). SDO12304.

Possible vague swelling at reported location. Field newly ploughed when visited. 1/6/E

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> Royal Air Force, 24-JAN-1959, RAF F12/58/267 0058-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11800.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452165 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 14 2023 6:48AM