Monument record MDO3029 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Came Down Group, Winterborne Came

Barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunker. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and digitally recorded for the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

'A'. Bowl barrow on slight west slope. Diameter 64 feet, height 4 1/2 feet. Bunker of golf course cuts south side. <1> <3>

'A' SY 68648617. Bowl barrow, diameter average 21.0m. Height 1.7m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. See ground photographs. <4>

Barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunker. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <7> and digitally recorded for the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

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

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

('A' - SY 68648617; 'B' - SY 68678620; 'C' SY 68718621; 'D' - SY 68718626; 'E' - SY 68678628; 'F' - SY 68778623, 'G' - SY 68818625; 'H' - SY 68868634) 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, 464 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(27) Bowl (68648616) on slight W. slope 175 yds. N.E. of (25). Diam. 64 ft., ht. 4½ ft. Bunker cuts S. side. '

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 496 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl, diameter averagae 21.0m, ht. 1.7m. In grass and in excellent condition. Bunker mentioned in RCHM above, not now visible. 1/2/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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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, 452105 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 8 2024 8:01PM