Monument record MDO3137 - Double Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a pair adjacent to one another and, part of a larger linear cemetery extending along the South Dorset Ridgeway. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photos.

Two closely adjacent bowl barrows 25 feet and 40 feet in diameter, with mounds about 2½ feet and 3½ feet high respectively, and joined by a slight bank one foot high. <1> <2>

Double bowl barrow, by a low ridge. Western mound 8.0m. Diameter and 1.0m.high, eastern mound 13.0m. Diameter and 1.0m. High . No visible ditch {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs {4-8}, measuring approximately 10.6 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.

‘(37) Double bowl (62548703) on flat ground 40 yds. S.E. of (36). Mounds, respectively 25 ft. and 40 ft. in diam., and 2½ ft. and 3½ ft. high, are joined by a slight bank 1 ft. high.’

<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 Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document).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> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM64) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11944.

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<7> 1-9-2004, NMR SY6286/10 (23722/03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11948.

<8> 12-5-2002, PGA SY6287 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11951.

<9> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 274 (Index). SDO12304.

West mound 8.0m diameter and 1.0m high. East mound 13.0m diameter and 1.0m high. Moss grass and heather covered. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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Mar 18 2024 1:43PM