Monument record MDO286 - Bowl barrow south of Came Wood, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Bincombe

One of a group of five bowl barrows. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal mound on aerial photographs {1}. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

This barrow was 35 paces in diameter and 7 feet in height. On arable 1953. <1>

'A' Bowl (SY 68888525) Diameter 80 ft., ht. 7 ft. <3>

'A' SY 68888525 Diameter 38.5m, height 2.0m. No visible ditch. The barrows remain under plough. 'A', 'B', 'D' - Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

This group of barrows is probably part of those excavated by the Rev J J Smith in 1842. See SY 68 SE 39 for details. <7>

One of a group of five bowl barrows. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal mound on aerial photographs <9>. Digitally plotted for 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.

(Centred SY 689853) 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.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 05-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 520 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 38.5m, ht. 1.0m. No visible ditch. Plouged over -reduced and spread. 1/3/C

<7> Fitzgerald, R J, RCHME Fieldworker's Comments RJF, R2 RFJ 08-OCT-1991 (Unpublished document). SWX2638.

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> National Monuments Record, NMR SY6985/3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12013.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452125 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 12:30PM