Monument record MDO3157 - Bowl barrow in the Ridge Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

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

(Centred SY 643867) Three round barrows - 'A'. Ditched bowl barrow 79 feet diameter by 11 feet high. Ditch about 25 ft wide
on east. Excavated in centre. <1> <2>

'A' SY 64248673. Bell barrow with a ditch visible on North-east quadrant only. 5.0m., wide and 0.2m. deep. diameter of mound 25.0m overall diameter 40.0m. height 3.6m. The berm is visible on the north-east quadrant only, 2.5m. wide. Not ploughed. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow, one of a group of three barrows (MDO357-59) and part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Also visible as circular earthwork mound on aerial photographs <6-9>, measuring approximately 22 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

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

('A' - SY 64228673; 'B' - SY 64288674; 'C' - SY 64378673) 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.

'(57) Ditched bowl (64248674) 190 yds. E. of (56). Diam. 79 ft., ht. 11 ft. Ditch about 25 ft. wide on E. Excavated in centre.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 07-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 375 (Index). SDO12304.

Ditch visible on the SW quadrant only. 5.0m wide and 0.2m deep. Diameter mound 25.0m and overall diameter 40.0m, ht. 3.6m. The ditch survives in an unploughed verge in a field corner. A stone wall crosses the W side of the mound N-S. Barrow itself is grass covered but the surrounding field is in ley pasture. 1/3/C

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1063-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11906.

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<9> 6-12-2006, NMR SY6386/26 (24499/01) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11939.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452433 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 11:09AM