Monument record MDO3021 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Bincombe Hill Group, Winterborne Came

Two round barrows in Came Wood: … 'B'. Ditched bowl (69338549) 50 yards east-north-east of 'A'. Diam. 76 ft., Ht. 8 ft. <1> <3>

'B' SY 69338549. Bowl barrow of diameter 28.0m. And height 3.1m. Faint, intermittent traces of a ditch 4.0m. Wide and 0.2m. Deep are visible. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

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

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

(Centred at SY 69318548) 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, 439 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(19) Ditched bowl (?) (69338549) 50 yds. E.N.E. of (18). Diam. 76 ft., ht. 8 ft. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-DEC-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 530 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 28.0m, ht. 3.1m. Faint ditch encircles barrow except on S where it is cut by an E-W track. In woodland - beech and sycamore. 1/2/B

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452116 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 16 2023 2:51PM