Monument record MDO3178 - Bowl barrow on Shorn Hill, Winterborne St Martin

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow on Shorn Hill. Recorded by field investigators as a plough-reduced mound. Also visible as a very low earthwork on aerial photographs.

Round barrow, ploughed almost flat. On arable, 1 1/2 ft high. <1> <3>

SY 63438730. Bowl barrow in arable and much ploughed-down, diameter approximately 20.0m., height 0.4m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Also visible as a very low earthwork on aerial photographs <6-7>, measuring approximately 15.3 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

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

(SY 63448730) 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, 469 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 302 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl barrow in ley pasture. It is very ploughed down and is 20.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. There is no visible ditch. 1/5/D

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

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

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452442 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 9:50AM