Monument record MDO3042 - Bowl Barrow in Cripton Wood, Winterborne Came

'B' SY 69758654. Bowl barrow; diameter 21 ft. height 1.5 ft. <1>

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

'B' SY 69738654. Flat-topped bowl barrow, diameter 9.0m., height 0.5m. No visible ditch. 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, 465 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(40) Bowl (69758654) 30 yds. E. of (39). Diam. 21 ft., ht. 1½ ft. '

<4> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 79 (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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 551 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 9.0m, ht. 0.5m. No visible ditch. In managed woodland. With 2 mature sycamores from mound. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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

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Feb 26 2024 1:50PM