Monument record MDO2965 - Bowl barrow, Whitcombe

Plough revealed about five yards south of centre a crushed Bronze Age urn with burnt bones and ashes. <2>

Situated on high ground, the mound is composed of clay as revealed by recent ploughing. Approximately 5.0m. south from the top of the mound the plough had revealed a crushed Bronze Age cinerary urn containing burnt bones and ashes. The fragments were too small to enable the urn to be rebuilt. <1>

Bowl barrow. Diameter about 72ft, height about 7ft. Ploughed. <4>

The bowl barrow at SY 71668755 is under arable and plough-spread. Its diameter is 26.0m and its maximum height 1.4m there is no visible evidence of a ditch. Published survey (1:2500) revised. <5>

Bowl barrow located on a low ridge, 600 metres south of Whitcombe Farm. An external bank was constructed around the barrow in the 1980s. Scheduled (not bank). <7>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, located on a low ridge 600 metres south of Whitcombe Farm, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <8-9>. Another bowl barrow is located close by (MDO20754) and may be associated with it.

<1> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 08-JUL-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 143 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 71668756) Tumulus (NR)

<4> 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. … (24) Bowl (71668756). Diam. about 72 ft., ht. about 7 ft. '

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-NOV-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 570 (Index). SDO12304.

<7> English Heritage, Scheduled Monument revision, 24-NOV-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18414.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4263-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10820.

<9> 07-MAR-1989, NMR OS/89079 268-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10843.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454001 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 13 2024 11:12AM