Monument record MDO3045 - Bowl Barrow, north of Came Farm, Winterborne Came

Possible bowl barrow, one of a pair of barrows, has a diam of 60ft. and a height of 2ft. Has been ploughed. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {1} and digitally plotted as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

'A' Bowl Barrow (SY 69498750). Forms a pair with 'B' on west of parish, on west edge of broad ridge. Diam. 60 ft, ht 2 ft. Ploughed. A bronze dagger from one of of these barrows is now in the Dorset County Museum. <1> ,3>

'A' SY 69498750. Bowl barrow, Diameter 37.0m, height 1.0m. Both are in a good state of preservation. No ditch visible around either barrow. In arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A rapid examination of air photography (5a) suggests the presence of a third barrow, located at SY 6963 8750, just west of the north end of South Plantation, visible as a soilmark (in line with the other two barrows and SY 68 NE 121) of an apparent central mound, ditch and outer bank. <6>

Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <7> and digitally plotted as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

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

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

(Centred at SY 69518750) 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.

'(43) Bowl (?) (SY 68 NE; 69498750). Forms a pair with (44) on W. of parish, on W. edge of broad ridge. Diam. 60 ft., ht. 2 ft. Ploughed. '

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 542 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 37.0m, ht. 1.0m. Ploughed down in ley pasture. 1/4/C

<6> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<6.1> NMR 4436: 27; NMR 4527: 46-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20284.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451959 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> 06-JUL-1967, CUCAP (ASN 9) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11834.

Record last edited

Nov 13 2023 4:12PM