Monument record MDO3019 - Barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Winterborne Came

A bowl barrow located immediately within the western edge of Came Wood. Formerly described by RCHME as being much overgrown and disturbed, in 1980 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 13 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres high, with no visible surrounding ditch. It was surrounded, however, by overgrown modern spoil-heaps, which made identification difficult. RCHME has suggested that some of the barrows in this general area were among those dug into by Warne in the mid-19th century.

Bowl barrow immediately within the west edge of Came Wood; 16 paces in diameter by 3 feet high, much overgrown and disturbed.<1> <3>

Bowl barrow as described by RCHM <3>. Diameter 13.0m., height 1.5m. No visible ditch. Surrounded by overgrown modern spoil-heaps, making identification very difficult. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. See ground photograph. <4>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 149 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 68698577) Tumulus (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, 439 (Monograph). SDO150.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 03-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 493 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 13.0m, ht. 1.5m. No visible ditch. Surrounded by overgrown modern spoil heaps. Moss and hawthorn covered, badger infested. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452113 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 1:39PM