Monument record MDO2962 - Whitcombe Down: bowl barrow

Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is one of two barrrows adjacent to one another at this location, and forms part of a wider dispersed group of 8 similar monuments. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 70 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high.

Bowl barrow. Diameter about 70ft, height about 3ft. Ploughed. <1> <3>

SY 71068669. The diameter of the bowl barrow is 25.0m, and its maximum height 1.2m. There is no visible evidence of a ditch.
Published survey (1:2500) re-surveyed. <4>

SY 7106 8668. Bronze Age bowl barrow located 350 metres north east of Whitcombe Barn and included with 2 further barrows located at SY 78 NW 21 in a scheduling separated into 2 areas of protection. The barrows are also part of a dispersed group of 8 similar monuments. Each has a mound 0.5 metres to 1.5 metres in height and 14 metres to 26 metres in diameter. <7>

Bronze Age bowl barrow, located 350 metres north east of Whitcombe Barn, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs . It is one of two barrrows adjacent to one another at this location, the other of which (MDO20721) is not scheduled. It forms part of a wider dispersed group of 8 similar monuments. <8>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 143 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 71078669) Tumulus (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, 459 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Four barrows (SY 78 NW), all ploughed, lie on continuation of same low ridge to N.E.
(21) Bowl (71078669). Diam. about 70 ft., ht. about 3 ft. '

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-NOV-79 (Unpublished document).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

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 567 (Index). SDO12304.

Not visited. Field regularly ploughed. 1/3/C

<7> English Heritage, English Heritage Scheduling Amendment, 16-JAN-2001 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<8> 27-AUG-1998, NMR SY 7086/22-23 (18150/11-12) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10825.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454009 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 2:45PM