Monument record MDO3110 - Bowl barrow, Winterborne Monkton

A bowl barrow, and other possible funerary monuments, seen as cropmarks. Visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs are two ring ditches and an oval ditched enclosure with a central pit. They were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY67978838. Bowl barrow Ring-ditch, 20 paces in diameter visible as parch mark in pasture summer of 1976. (Not visible on RAF air photographs CPE UK1934/3087-8 of 17 1 47).

A rapid examination of air photography shows the barrow as a ring ditch. Also visible is a U-shaped feature and a feature composed of two parallel ditches with a central pit. The features may be related (although not quite in line, they do seem to form a close, distinct group) and could possibly be associated with the Roman road (RR 48). They may be a funerary monument of some form. All the features, of Prehistoric or Roman date, are visible as cropmarks at:
A - SY 6799 8839 - ring ditch
B - SU 6793 8839 - linear features and pit
C - SU 6787 8837 - U-shaped curvilinear feature. <2>

Bowl barrow, and other possible funerary monuments, seen as cropmarks. Visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <3> are two ring ditches and an oval ditched enclosure with a central pit. They were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 56 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<1.1> Boyden, J R, Flight 102 2/7-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20338.

<2> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project, 12-FEB-1993 (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<2.1> NMR 4527: 51-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20336.

<2.2> NMR 4333: 48-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20337.

<3> National Monuments Record, 11-JUN-1989, NMR SY6788/43 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11818.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 442 (Index). SDO12304.

'No visible trace in ley pasture. 7/7/E.'

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452241 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jun 18 2024 10:04AM