Monument record MDO3135 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of larger linear barrow cemetery extending along the South Dorset Ridgeway. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs.

A bowl barrow, diameter 18 ft, height 1 1/2 ft {1-2}.

Later field investigations record it as being 6.5m in diameter, with a height of 0.3m. No visible ditch {3}.

Also visible as a circular cropmark on aerial photographs {4}, measuring approximately 11.2 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, 466 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(35) Bowl (62518708) 130 yds. S.E. of (34). Diam. 18 ft., ht. 1½ ft.’

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 Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document).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

<4> 1-9-2004, NMR SY6286/10 (23722/03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11948.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 272 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 6.5m, ht. 0.3m. Numerous flints visible on the surface of the mound, situated in a transitional zone between rough grazing to the E and heathland to the W. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Mar 18 2024 1:42PM