Monument record MDO3014 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Winterborne Came

Small barrow on Came Down Golf Course, almost flattened. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {1} and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Group of barrows on Came Down Golf Course: 'C'. Bowl (68408588) 57 yds.N.W. of 'B'. Slight irregular rise 33 ft. in diam. <3>

'C' SY 68428588 Diameter approximately 11.0m, height 0.2m. Almost flattened. No ditch visible around any of the barrows.
All resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. See ground photographs. <4>

Small barrow on Came Down Golf Course, almost flattened. Visible as an earthwork 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.

'(12) Bowl (68408588) 57 yds. N.W. of (11). Slight irregular rise 33 ft. in diam. '

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 03-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 482 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 11.0m, ht. 0.2m. Almost flattened. Faint rise in golf course in grass. 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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 3286-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12009.

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

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1300059 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 2:05PM