Monument record MDO3034 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Came Down Group, Winterborne Came

Large bowl barrow with ditch on Came Down Golf Course, ditch damaged on northern side by car park. Visible on aerial photographs {1} as a 38m diameter earthwork ring ditch with an internal mound. Digtally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'G'. Ditched bowl barrow 101 feet in diameter by 9 feet high, with a ditch 15 feet wide by 2 feet deep. <1> <3>

'G' SY 68818625. Bowl barrow in excellent state of preservation. Diameter 40.0m. overall and height 3.6m., with encircling ditch 4.0m. wide and 0.3m. deep visible on all except the north side. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. See ground photographs. <4>

Visible on aerial photographs <1> as a 38m diameter earthwork ring ditch with an internal mound. 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 502 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 40.0m, ht. 3.6m with encircling ditch 4.0m wide and 0.3m deep visible on all except the N side. Extraordinarily well preserved. Management restricted to mowing and spraying. Ditch destroyed by a car park on the N. N-S road passes immediately E of the barrow. 1/2/A

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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