Monument record MDO3125 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A mound recorded by field investigators and interpreted as a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger linear barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Bowl barrow on the lip of steep North East slope, 70 yds, diameter 27 ft, height 3 ft {1-2}.

Later field investigations record it as having a diameter of 18.0m., height 0.6m {3}.

Also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {4}, measuring approximately 7.9 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452318 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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

<2> 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.

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> 29-7-1997, DCC 2297 0358 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11953.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 257 (Index). SDO12304.

A swelling exists here but it is indistinguishable from the natural slopes which fall away gradually to the S and more steeply to the N without interruption. That which survives gives the appearance of a natural feature. Situated in a field of regularly improved ley pasture. 1/7/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 7:30PM