Monument record MDO3144 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

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

Ditched bowl barrow located at the head of a combe, around 45 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high. The surrounding ditch is 12 feet wide, but ploughed. {1-2}.

Bowl barrow in arable. Diameter 16.0m. Height 0.6m. Ploughed. No visible ditch. {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {4-7}, measuring approximately 14.3 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.

‘(44) Ditched bowl (62738703) 176 yds. N.N.E. of (43) and down slope from it at head of combe. Diam. 45 ft., ht. up to 3 ft. Ditch 12 ft. wide, but ploughed.’

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<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> 1-2-1968, MAL 68078-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11950.

<8> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 279 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 16.0m and ht. 0.6m. There is no visible ditch to this barrow which is situated in a field of ley pasture. 1/5/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Apr 16 2016 10:01AM