Monument record MDO3132 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as an earthwork and cropmarks 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, diameter 33 ft, height 2 1/2 ft. Much damaged {1-2}.

Later field investigations record it as having a diameter of 13.0m., height 1.3m. Not ploughed
over, though in arable. No visible ditch {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork and a cropmark on aerial photographs {4-7}, seen as a ditched mound measuring approximately 10.5 metres in diameter, with an outer ditch 0.9 meters wide. 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, 466 (Monograph). SDO150.

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 Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document).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

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1063-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11906.

<6> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM64) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11944.

<7> 11-6-1978, NMR OS/78080 100-101 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11952.

<8> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 267 (Index). SDO12304.

Now ploughed over, reduced and spread. A probable fragment of BA cinerary urn found on the surface of the S side. Finds in the DCM. 1/4/C

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Mar 18 2024 1:41PM