Monument record MDO289 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of five. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch 30m in diameter, with internal pit, on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. The pit seems likely to represent a burial of some sort.

This barrow was 25 paces in diameter and 2 feet in height. On arable 1953. <1>

'D' Bowl (SY 69008533) 50 yards north east of 'C'. Diameter about 70 ft., ht. 2 ft. <3>

'D' SY 68998533. Diameter 18.0m, height 0.5m. 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. <6>

Visible as a cropmark ring ditch 30m in diameter, with internal pit, on aerial photographs <8>. The site was 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.

‘(56) Bowl (69008533) 50 yds. N.E. of (55). Diam. about 70 ft., ht. 2 ft.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 05-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 523 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 0.5m. No visible ditch. Ploughed down in ley pasture. 1/4/D

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 Fitzgerald, R J, RCHME Fieldworker's Comments RJF, R RJF 08-OCT-1991 (Unpublished document).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

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Monuments Record, NMR SY6985/3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12013.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452125 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 12:35PM