Monument record MDO3139 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age oval bowl barrow, part of a larger linear cemetery extending along the South Dorset Ridgeway. Field investigations record it as an extant mound. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

Oval bowl barrow measuring 21 feet from north to south and 17 feet across, with a steep-sided mound about 2 feet high. <1> <2>

Gorse-covered bowl barrows; diameter 7.0m., height 0.6m. {3}.

Also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {4}, measuring approximately 12 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<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.

‘(39) Bowl (?) (62628699) 90 yds. S.E. of (37). Oval, 21 ft. (N.-S.) by 17 ft. Ht. 2 ft. Steep-sided.’

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<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 276 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 7.0m, ht. 0.6m. Flints visible on this mound. Its unusual steep sided profile casts doubt as to if this is an authentic barrow. Situated in what appears to be improved pastureland. 1/2/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Oct 15 2025 10:28AM