Monument record MDO3030 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Came Down Group, Winterborne Came

Double bowl barrow surrounded by oval ditch on Came Down Golf Course. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and digitally recorded for the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

'B' Ditched double bowl barrow. The mounds, 20 yds apart, are 56 feet diameter by 4 feet high, joined by a saddle 56 feet wide rising one foot above surrounding ground. Both surrounded by same ditch. (Grinsell describes two barrow here, and two are visible on air photographs with the same surrounding ditch). <1-2>

'B' SY 68668620. Twin bowl barrows, each 20.0m. in diameter and 1.4m. in height, connected by a 'saddle' or ridge 0.7m. in height. The common ditch is visible on the east side only, for a length of 30.0m. approximately. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. See ground photographs. <4>

Ditched double bowl. The almost contiguous mounds, 56ft. In diam and 4ft. High, are joined by a broad saddle 1ft. High. The whole surrounded by an oval ditch. Double bowl barrow surrounded by oval ditch on Came Down Golf Course. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <1> and digitally recorded for the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1057-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12018.

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

<3> 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)

<4> 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.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 497 (Index). SDO12304.

Twin bowl barrows each 20.0m in diameter and 1.4m high connected by a saddle or ridge 0.7m in height. The common ditch is visible on the east side only for a length of 30.0m approx. In excellent condition under grass. 1/2/A

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452105 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 8 2024 8:03PM