Monument record MDO3027 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Came Down Group, Winterborne Came

Barrow on Came Down Golf Course, in excellent condition. Visible on aerial photographs {1} as an earthwork mound 16m in diameter. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Bowl barrow on west slope of spur, 72 feet diameter by 5 feet high, but spread. <1> <3>

Bowl barrow, diameter 25.0m, height 2.5m. No visible ditch. See ground photograph. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

Barrow on Came Down Golf Course, in excellent condition. Visible on aerial photographs <7> as an earthwork mound 16m in diameter. 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.

(SY 68528607) 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, 464 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(25) Bowl (68528607) on W. slope of spur. Diam. 72 ft., ht. 5 ft., but spread. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 495 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 25.0m, ht. 2.5m. No visible ditch. Barrow in excellent condition and under grass. 1/1/A

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1057-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12018.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452193 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 29 2023 4:40PM