Monument record MDO2958 - Bowl barrow, Whitcombe

A Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is one of a small group of four barrows within a wider linear barrow cemetery. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 90 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high, and an encircling ditch.

Four barrows, including an oval barrow, in NW-SE line across S-facing slope of low ridge running N.N.E. below the Ridgeway. All have been heavily ploughed. 'A'. Ditched bowl (70708626). Diam. about 90 ft, height about 5ft. <3>

The four barrows are situated in arable fields as follows: 'A' - SY 70688627. Diameter 30.0m. Maximum height 1.5m. None of the four barrows shows any visible evidence of a ditch. 1:2500 Published surveys of 'A', 'C' and 'D' revised. 'B' surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is part of a wider linear barrow cemetery (MDO2958-61). <7-9>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 707862) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 143 (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, 459 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(AB) Group (SY 78 NW). Four barrows, including an oval barrow, in N.W.-S.E. line across S.-facing slope of low ridge running N.N.E. below the Ridgeway. All have been heavily ploughed. The top half of bank barrow Broadmayne (19) and the round barrows continuing its alignment to W. can be seen in silhouette to S. (17) Ditched bowl (70708626). Diam. about 90 ft., ht. about 5 ft. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-NOV-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 559 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 30.0m, max. ht. 1.5m. In ley pasture, ploughed down. Presents an even profile. A hollow lies to the north. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> 27-AUG-1998, NMR SY 7086/16-17 (18144/01-02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10830.

<8> 27-AUG-1998, NMR SY 7086/18-19 (18150/05-06) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10829.

<9> 11-JUN-1978, NMR OS/78080 087-89 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10828.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453953 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 5 2024 4:36PM