Monument record MDO295 - Bowl barrow, one of the West Hill Group, Bincombe

This barrow was 18 paces in diameter and 6 feet in height. Under grass, 1953. <2>

The West Hill Group of round barrows consist of: (A) Bowl (?) (70058453). At SW end of alignment just above 400ft contour. Diameter 54ft, height. 5ft. Overgrown but unploughed. <3>

'A' - SY 70048454. Grass-covered. Diameter 16.0m, height 1.5m. None of the barrows has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs. One of a group of barrows on West Hill. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.<6>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 703846) Tumuli (NR) (eight shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-AUG-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 611 (Index). SDO12304.

16.0m diameter, ht. 1.5m. Unploughed in newly ploughed field. Covered in established grass. Perimeter has been damaged by severe basal ploughing. Visible as a low rise. 1/2/C

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11747.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:25PM