Monument record MDO3146 - Bowl barrow, one of 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, cut on west by a hedge bank. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

Bowl barrow around 28 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high. Cut on west by a hedge bank which crosses dyke (MDO3248) {1-2}.

Gorse-covered bowl barrow, diameter 10.0m., height 1.3m. No visible ditch {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {4-5}, measuring approximately 7.4 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, 467 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(46) Bowl (62768682; Fig. p. 519) 40 yds. E.S.E. of (45). Diam. 28 ft., ht. 3 ft. Cut on W. by a hedge bank which crosses dyke Winterborne St. Martin (145); (cf. (47)).’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document).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> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 284 (Index). SDO12304.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Apr 16 2016 10:03AM