Monument record MDO3145 - 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.

Bowl barrow around 45 feet in diameter with a mound about Diameter 45 ft, height 4½ feet high.{1-2}.

Heather-covered bowl barrow; diameter 16.0m., height 1.3m. - 1.8m.. No visible ditch.{3}.

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {4-7}, measuring approximately 7.8 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.

‘(45) Bowl (62738684) 60 yds. S.E. of (43). Diam. 45 ft., ht. 4½ ft.’

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document).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

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

<5> unknown date, NMR SY6286/2 (CCC 1755/5900) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11945.

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

<7> unknown date, NMR SY 6488/2 (CCC 11755/5805) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11949.

<8> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 283 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 16.0m, ht. 1.3m-1.8m. A pile of flint nodules and limestone lumps has been placed on top of the mound. A line of large sarsen stones on the SW of the barrow may be part of an 'inner retaining circle'. Situated in heathland and heather covered. 1/1/A

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Apr 16 2016 10:02AM