Monument record MDO3162 - Bowl barrow in the Ridge Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Bowl, 37ft. in diam and 4.5ft. high. Ploughed and excavated in the centre. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Three bowl barrows. … 'C' 14 paces in diameter, 3 ins high with a hollow centre and indications of a retaining wall. <2>

Three bowl barrows, one now ploughed out. 'C' Diameter 13.0m, height 1.2m grass covered. A trench 1.5m wide and 1.0m deep has been cut across the barrow from N-S. There are vague traces of a ditch. This barrow is of flinty construction, with some stones loosely lying in the side, though nothing in the nature of a retaining wall. <3>

Three barrows: 'C' Bowl (SY 65178670) diameter 37 ft, height 4.5 ft. Ploughed and excavated in centre. <4> <6>

'C' SY 65178670. Bowl barrow, diameter 10.0m, height 0.2m. No visible ditch. In grass now but has been ploughed down. 'A' and 'C' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <9>

SY 649868. "Round barrow N of Ridgeway". Scheduled. <7>

Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <12>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' SY 64898676; 'B' SY 65058672; 'C' SY 65178670) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 10-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 155 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SY 65038673) Tumulus (NR) Tumuli (NR) (Sites of) (NAT)

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 74 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1980 (Map). SDO17396.

B (SY 65058672); C (SY 65178670) Tumuli (NR) (Sites of) (NAT)

<9> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<10> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 10m and ht. 0.2m. Much ploughed down in a field of ley pasture. 1/5/D

<11> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<12> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1060-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11836.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451905 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 27 2023 9:47AM