Monument record MDO290 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Bincombe

A barrow 21m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark mound with internal pit. 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 22 paces in diameter and 1 foot in height. On arable 1953. <1>

Four round barrows: 'A' (69108536). Diam. About 60 ft., Ht. 1 ft. <3>

'A' SY 69108535 Diameter 18.0m, height 0.5m. Much ploughed down. No visible evidence of a ditch around any of these probable bowl barrows. All in arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

Bowl, around 60ft. In diam and 1ft. High. <1> A barrow 21m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <7> as a cropmark mound with internal pit. 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 at SY 69198533) 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 525 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 0.5m. Much ploughed down. In ley pasture. Constructed of chalk and flint. 1/5/D

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Monuments Record, NMR SY6985/3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12013.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452162 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 12:51PM