Monument record MDO3046 - Bowl Barrow, north of Came Farm, Winterborne Came

Possible bowl barrow, 86ft. in diam and 2.5ft. high, has been ploughed. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping 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>

'B' SY 69538750. Bowl barrow, daimeter 32.0m, 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 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>

Possible bowl barrow, 86ft. In diam and 2.5ft. high, has been ploughed. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <7>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

<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, 543 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(44) Bowl (?) (SY 68 NE; 69538750) 45 yds. E. of (43). Diam. 86 ft., ht. 2½ 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 543 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 32.0m, ht. 1.0m. In good state of preservation? Ploughed down in ley pasture by 1983. 1/4/C

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 Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project (Unpublished document).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

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451959 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 13 2023 4:16PM