Monument record MDO3166 - Bowl barrow in the Ridge Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Ditched bown, 60ft diameter, 9ft high, ditch about 9 ft wide, damaged. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'C' Bowl barrow 18 paces in diameter by 2 feet high. <1>

Round barrows: 'C' Ditched bowl (66278656) 60 yards east-south-east of 'B'. Diam. 60 ft., ht. 9 ft. Ditch about 9 ft. wide. Damaged. (2)

'C' SY 66278656. Bowl barrow, steep-sided and overgrown Diameter 18.0m., height 2.4m. Excavation hollow on top; no visible ditch. 'C' Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Ditched bown, 60ft diameter, 9ft high, ditch about 9 ft wide, damaged <2>. 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.

(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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-MAY-80 (Unpublished document).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 396 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m and ht. 2.4m. Ditch visible on the S & W, 2.5m wide and 0.2m deep. On the E the ditch had been dug away and on the N it was obscured by a trackway and by soil piled up against the barrow. Situated in an uncultivated part of an arable field. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> 26-MAR-1968, NMR SY6586/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11843.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452142 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 29 2024 6:30AM