Monument record MDO296 - Pond barrow, one of the West Hill Group, Bincombe

Grinsell recorded this as a probable pond barrow with enclosure 60 feet in diameter and ½ a foot deep, and outer bank 15 feet wide and ¼ of a foot high. In arable. <2>

The West Hill Group of round barrows consist of: (B) Pond barrow (70148459) 120 yds. NE of (A). Diameter, 54ft, depth 1ft within low bank about 25ft wide. Almost ploughed out. <3>

'B' - Not found. <4>

Bronze Age 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. <7>

<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.

‘(63) Pond barrow (70148459) 120 yds. N.E. of (62). Diam. 54 ft., depth 1 ft. within low bank about 25 ft. wide. Almost ploughed out.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-AUG-80 (Unpublished document).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 612 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. Field regularly ploughed. 7/7/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11747.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:25PM