Monument record MDO3085 - Bowl barrow, Winterborne Herringston

Possible bowl barrow. Visible on aerial photographs as a 18m diameter cropmark ring ditch with a central mound. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping project.

Two round barrows: 'A'. Bowl (?) (SY 68118650). Diam. 61 ft., ht 1 ft. Ploughed. <1> <3>

'A' SY 68108649. Bowl barrow, diameter 19.0m., height up to 0.9m. … No ditch visible around either barrow. Under pasture. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Visible on aerial photographs <7> as a 18m diameter cropmark ring ditch with a central mound. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping project.

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

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

(Centred at SY 68148655) 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 (Monograph). SDO150.

'The parish, consisting mainly of relatively low ground N. of the Ridgeway, contains only four barrows. (3) and (4) at the narrow S. end of the parish, where it includes a projecting spur of the Ridgeway, form the N.E. end of a straight alignment 930 yds. long with Bincombe (30–1) and (33).
(3) Bowl (?) (SY 68 NE; 68118650). Diam. 61 ft., ht. 1 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 469 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl barrow 19.0m diameter and up to 0.9m high. Presents an even profile in a cultivated field. 1/3/C

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Monuments Record, 08-JUL-1976, NMR SY6886/1/24 (JRB 3302) (Aerial Photograph). SDO12020.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452090 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 3:32PM