Monument record MDO3163 - Bowl barrow in the Ridge Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A bowl barrow visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 60 feet in diameter with a mound about 3½ feet high, and had been ploughed. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY66038664. Ploughed Bowl barrow on north slope, 60 ft diameter, 3 1/2 ft high. Oval depression 60 ft N-S by 45 ft and 3 ft deep, touches W. side. <1> <3>

SY 66028664. Bowl barrow in arable, as described by RCHM. <3>. Diameter 20.0m. height 0.7m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Bowl, 60ft. in diam and 3.5ft. high, has been ploughed. Oval depression 60ft. by 45ft. and 3ft. deep, touches W. side <3>. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <7>. The 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.

(SY 66038664) Tumulus (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 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 393 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl barrow in arable. Diameter 20.0m and ht. 0.7m. No visible ditch. 1/4/C

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 06-APR-2002, PGA_SY6985 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11801.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451896 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 29 2022 7:47AM