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. (Grinsell 1959)

The West Hill Group of round barrows consist of: (H) Bowl (?) (70478473) 100 yds. NE of (G). Diameter 60ft, height about 10ft. Turf-covered. (RCHME 1970)

'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. (Barton 1980)

Bronze Age barrow, visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs (RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-5). One of a group of barrows on West Hill. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

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

Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11747.

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

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.’

Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 618 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Diam 24.0m. Ht 4.0m. flat top of 7.0m diam. Unploughed and overgrown, surrounded by hexagonal fenced enclosure. Field regularly ploughed and in ley pasture. Severe damage from past basal ploughing. The mound was uneven and flat topped. 1/3/C’

Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Barton, J G, Various, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-AUG-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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