Monument record MDO3015 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Winterborne Came

Small barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunker. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Group of barrows on Came Down Golf Course: 'D' Bowl (68438588) 24 ydsE.N.E. of 'C'. Diam. 33 ft., ht. 9 ins., but spread and cut by small ditch. <3>

'D' SY 68448588 Diameter 16.0m, height 0.5m. Mutilated by a bunker. 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 15 and by RCHME as Winterborne Came 13. Formerly described by RCHME as a spread mound 33 feet in diameter and 9 inches high, and cut by a small ditch, in 1980 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 16 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high, and mutilated by a bunker. <3-4>

Bowl barrow, 33ft. In diam and 9ins. High, but spread and cut by a small ditch. Small barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunker. 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.

<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.

‘(13) Bowl (68438588) 24 yds. E.N.E. of (12). Diam. 33 ft., ht. 9 ins., but spread and cut by small ditch.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 03-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 483 (Index). SDO12304.

<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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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, 1300061 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 2:00PM