Monument record MDO3041 - Bowl barrow in Cripton Wood, Winterborne Came

'A' SY 69738654. Ditched bowl barrow; diameter. 33 ft. height 3ft. Damaged by rabbits. <1> <3>

A group of four barrows in Cripton Wood. Scheduled. <4>

'A'. SY 69718654. Bowl barrow, diameter 12.0m., height 1.2m. Vestiges of an outer ditch are visible on the south-east quadrant only. All the barrows are tree-and-scrub-covered but generally well-preserved. 'C' surveyed, and 'A', 'B', 'D' and 'E' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 149 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred at SY 69788652) 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, 485 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(39) Ditched bowl (69738654) 130 yds. E. of (38). Diam. 33 ft., ht. 3 ft. Damaged by rabbits. '

<4> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 550 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 12.0m, ht. 1.2m. Vestiges of an outer ditch are visible on SE quadrant only. Within managed woodland. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452073 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 26 2024 1:46PM