Monument record MDO3086 - Bowl barrow, Winterborne Herringston

Bowl barrow 63 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet high. Has been ploughed. Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping project. Visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark ring ditch 25m in diameter, with a central pit/hollow.

Two round barrows: … 'B' Bowl (SY 68168659) 100 yards north-north-east of 'A'. Diam. 63 feet, Ht., 2 1/2 ft. Ploughed. <1> <3>

'B' SY 68158658. Bowl barrow, diameter 26.0m., height 0.8m. maximum. No ditch visible around either barrow. Under pasture. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping project. Visible on aerial photographs <7> as a cropmark ring ditch 25m in diameter, with a central pit/hollow.

<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). … (4) Bowl (SY 68 NE; 68168659) 100 yds. N.N.E. of (3). Diam. 63 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document).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 470 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl barrow 26.0m in diameter and ht. 0.8m max. 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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 3:35PM