Monument record MDO3164 - Damaged barrow in the Ridge Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Possible barrow, circular ditch about 100ft. in diam and 15ft. wide, has been ploughed flat. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Round barrows: 'A' Barrow (?)66158664) Circular ditch about 100 ft. in diam. And 15 ft. wide visible on V.A.P. CPR/UK 1934 1062. Ploughed flat. <3>

'A' and 'B'. No visible remains, presumably ploughed out.<4>

Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <6>. 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.

(Centred at SY 66218660) 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, 468 (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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-MAY-80 (Unpublished document).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 394 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace of this barrow which has been ploughed out in this arable field. 7/7/E

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1061-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11826.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452142 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 29 2024 6:34AM