Monument record MDO302 - Bowl barrow, one of the West Hill Group, Bincombe

This barrow was 20 paces in diameter and 5 feet in height. On arable, 1953. <2>

The West Hill Group of round barrows consist of: (H) Bowl (?) (70478473) 100 yds. NE of (G). Diameter 60ft, height about 10ft. Turf-covered. <3>

'H' - SY 70488473. Under grass. Diameter 24.0m, height 4.0m. Flat top of 7.0m. Diameter. Quarry trench on north side. None of the barrows has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Bronze Age barrow, visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs. One of a group of barrows on West Hill. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 703846) Tumuli (NR) (eight shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 440 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(69) Bowl (?) (70478473) 100 yds. N.E. of (68). Diam. 60 ft., ht. about 10 ft. Turf-covered.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-AUG-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 618 (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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 3284-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11747.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:25PM