Monument record MDO3012 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Winterborne Came

Small barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunkers. Visible on aerial photographs {1} and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Group of barrows on Came Down Golf Course: 'A' Bowl (68428583) immediately above 500 ft. contour slope to N. Diam. 54 ft., ht 3 ft. Damaged by bunkers. <3>

'A' SY 68428582 Diameter 18.0m, height 0.6m to 2.4m. Severely mutilated. No ditch visible around any of the barrows. All resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. See ground photographs. <4>

Visible on aerial photographs <7> and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 148 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred at SY 68498586) Tumuli (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, 438 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(10) Bowl (68428583) 307 yds. E.N.E. of the last, immediately above 500 ft. contour on slope to N. Diam. 54 ft., ht. 3 ft. Damaged by bunkers. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 03-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 487 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 0.6m-2.4m. Severely mutilated particularly on E. Dug away for bunkers. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3289-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11856.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452102 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 1:57PM