Monument record MDO3033 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Came Down Group, Winterborne Came

Bowl barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunker on south side. Otherwise well preserved. Visible on aerial photographs as an earthwork mound 17m in diameter. Digtally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'F'. Bowl barrow 79 feet diameter by 4 1/2 feet high. Its height has been increased slightly for use as a golf tee, and it is cut on the south by a bunker. <1> <3>

Bowl barrow, diameter 24.0m. and height 2.2m. slightly mutilated by golf course landscaping. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. See ground photographs. <4>

Bowl barrow on Came Down Golf Course, damaged by bunker on south side. Otherwise well preserved. Visible on aerial photographs <1> as an earthwork mound 17m in diameter. Digtally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

<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.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 501 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 24.0m, ht. 2.2m. Cut by a bunker on S side, otherwise in good condition. In grass. Management restricted to mowing and spraying. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452105 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 8 2024 8:02PM