Monument record MDO3156 - Bowl barrow in the Ridge Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway. Also visible as disturbed earthwork mound on aerial photographs

Five round barrows on Ridge Hill: 'E'. Bowl (64068676) 60 yds. east south east of 'D'. Diam 30 ft, ht 3 ft. Damaged. <1> <3>

'E' SY 64058676. Bowl barrow which measures 14.0m., east-west by 8.0m. north-south, height 0.9m., truncated by trackway. No visible ditch. All the barrows are in an arable field but only 'D' has been ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, one of a group of five barrows (MDO3152-56) and part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway. All the barrows are in an arable field.

Also visible as disturbed earthwork mound on aerial photographs <7>, measuring approximately 9 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 155, 167 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 639868) Tumuli (NR)

<3> 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.

‘(56) Bowl (64068676) 60 yds. E.S.E. of (55). Diam. 30 ft., ht. 3 ft. Damaged.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 374 (Index). SDO12304.

14.0m diameter E-W and 8.0m N-S, ht. 0.9m. A path crosses the S part of the mound. The N half is destroyed in a ploughed field. 7/5/D

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452436 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 11:01AM