Monument record MDO3099 - Bell barrow, one of the Lanceborough Group, Winterborne Monkton

Bell barrow, 76ft. in diam and 5.5ft. high. Berm is about 9ft. wide while the ditch is 15ft. wide. Showing as a cropmark ring ditch with a central mound on aerial photographs. Part of a cluster of monuments located just to the north of Maiden Castle. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'D' The mound is 74 ft diam and 6 ft high surrounded by a berm 9 ft wide and a vague ditch 15 ft wide and 6" deep.<2>

'D'. A grass covered bell barrow; diameter of the mound 30.0m, including a berm 4.0m wide. The ditch is very mutilated and
unsurveyable. <3>

Lanceborough Group. Four barrows including two bells and a possible bell, with a long barrow (SY 68 NE 93) and a horseshoe-shaped enclosure (SY 68 NE 94) lie on a local downland crest about 300 ft above OD some 700 yards N of the W end of the Maiden Castle 'long mound' (SY 68 NE 90). The adjacent open field furlong was called Lanceborough or Great Barrow Furlong (Tithe Map 1844), a name probably referring to 'C' the largest bell barrow in the area. All the barrows have been damaged, mostly by ploughing. Winterborne Monkton: 'D' (7) Bell (66778927) 90 yards E of (6). Diameter about 76 ft, height 5.5 ft. Berm about 9 ft wide and ditch 15 ft wide. <4-5>

'D' SY 66778927. Bell barrow in arable. Diameter 32.0m, height 2.0m. Berm and ditch ploughed out. A, C and D re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

A and D no longer extant. <8>

Showing as a cropmark ring ditch with a central mound on aerial photographs <11>. Part of a cluster of monuments located just to the north of Maiden Castle. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

A bell barrow, part of a cluster of monuments located just to the north of Maiden Castle (see associated monument records). The barrow is listed by Grinsell as Winterborne Monkton 1c and by RCHME as Winterborne Monkton 7. In 1980, the Ordnance Survey described it as a mound 32 metres in diameter and 2 metres high, the berm and ditch having been ploughed out. RCHME had earlier recorded a berm about 9 feet across and a ditch about 15 metres wide. Scheduled. This barrow was formerly described as part of SY 68 NE 26. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information. <13>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927/38 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 66508938; 'B' - SY 66708928; 'C' - SY 6658920; 'D' - SY 66788927) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 13-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 166 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> 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.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-SEP-1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 12-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<8> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, Small Scale Reviser October 1981 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<9> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 431 (Index). SDO12304.

<10> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<11> National Monuments Record, 22-JUN-1976, NMR SY6689/20/15 (JRB 3084) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11744.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451927 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1269109 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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