Monument record MDO315 - Disc barrow on Bincombe Hill, Bincombe

Disc barrow 40 metres in diameter is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark ring ditch with internal ditch and central pit. This monument was first seen on an aerial photograph taken by John Boyden in 1976. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. The pit seems likely to represent a burial of some sort.

Circa SY 69408505. An almost ploughed-out round barrow, characteristic of a disc barrow, was found on Bincombe Hill by C.J. Bailey during the drought of 1976. Colour transparencies of the site are held by Bailey. <1>

Disc barrow 40m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <5> as a cropmark ring ditch with internal ditch and central pit. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, Index card, 18.11.80 (Index). SDO20287.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 62 (Monograph). SWX1703.

‘112 ft. CJB during drought of 1976: disc-barrow perhaps of ‘Dorset’ type, indicated by differential growth in vegetation; almost ploughed out.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 517 (Index). SDO12304.

‘No visible trace in newly ploughed field. 7/7/E.’

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<5> National Monuments Record, 28-JUN-2000, NMR SY6885/4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12010.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452227 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 4 2024 3:02PM