Monument record MDO3147 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

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

A ditched bowl barrow on edge of steep drop to North East, around 72 feet in diameter with a mound about 7 feet high, and encircled by a ditch 12 feet wide and 2 feet deep. A dyke (MDO3248) runs over top of the mound {1-2}.

Bowl barrow crossed by a linear dyke. Overall diameter 30.0m., height 4.2m. Ditch 3.0m. Wide and 0.3m. Deep but mutilated on south by a track {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {4-8}, seen as a disturbed internal mound measuring approximately 13 metres in diameter, surrounded by a ditch 0.8 meters wide. A second outer ditch is also visible, approximately 1.3 metres wide and seperated from the internal mound by a berm 4.3 metres wide. 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.

‘(47) Ditched bowl (62798681; Fig. p. 519, Plate 209) on edge of steep drop to N.E., 25 yds. S.E. of (46). Diam. 72 ft., ht. 7 ft. Ditch 12 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep. The dyke, Winterborne St. Martin (145), runs over top of mound.’

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document).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

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

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

<7> unknown date, NMR SY6286/2 (CCC 1755/5900) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11945.

<8> 1-9-2004, NMR SY6286/10 (23722/03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11948.

<9> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 285 (Index). SDO12304.

Overall diameter 30.0m and ht. 4.2m. Ditch 3.0m wide and 0.3m deep. Moss grass and heather covered with gorse bushes growing from the S and NE. A stony mound. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Apr 16 2016 10:06AM