Monument record MDO3013 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Winterborne Came

Tree covered barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged on east side. Visible on aerial photographs and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Group of barrows on Came Down Golf Course: 'B' Bowl (68468584). On centre of ridge running toN.W. 34 yds. E.N.E. of 'A'. Diam. 84 ft., ht. 10 1/2 ft. Tree-covered and damaged on E. <3>

'B' SY 68458583 Diameter 25.0m, height 4.3m. In good condition. No ditch visible around any of the barrows. All resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. See ground photographs. <4>

A bowl barrow, part of a group on Came Down Golf Course. Listed by Grinsell as Winterborne Came 17 and by RCHME as Winterborne Came 11. It was described by RCHME as a tree-covered mound 84 feet in diameter and 10.5 feet high, with evidence of damage on the east side. In 1980, the Ordnance Survey recorded it as being in good condition, and measuring 25 metres in diameter and 4.3 metres high with no visible traces of a surrounding ditch. <3-4>

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, 437 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(11) Bowl (68468584). On centre of ridge running to N.E., 34 yds. E.N.E. of (10). Diam. 84 ft., ht. 10½ ft. Tree-covered and damaged on E. '

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 03-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 488 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 25.0m, ht. 4.3m. In grass but covered in beech and hawthorn. 1/2/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1300020 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 1:57PM