Monument record MDO3189 - Bowl barrow in the Eweleaze Barn group, Winterborne St Martin

Probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a linear barrow cemetery. Recorded as extant by field investigators and also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs.

(Centred SY 648874) Tumuli [NR] (three times). (1)

Ten barrows including a pound barrow ('F') and a quadruple bell barrow ('K'), form an irregular linear cemetery orientated roughly North West to South East on top of the second spur east of Shorn Hill. 'K' is unique in England. 'A', 'C', 'D' and 'F' were excavated by St George Gray and Prideaux in 1902.

'H' Bowl (?) (64868728) 130 yds South South East of 'G' Diam 45 ft, ht 3 ft.Ploughed. (2,3)

'H'. SY 64868727. Bowl barrow under grass in arable field - has been ploughed down. Diameter 26.0m., height 1.0m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D.

(SY64828728; 64828720; 64818712) The cropmarks of three probable barrows on Crawford air photograph, could not be traced in arable field. (4)

A probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a linear barrow cemetery comprising bowl barrows, a pond barrow, and a quadruple bell barrow (MDO3183-91).

Listed by Grinsell {1} as Winterborne St Martin 41 and by RCHME {2} as Winterborne St Martin 89. It is part of the Eweleaze Barn barrow group.

In 1980, the Ordnance Survey {3} reported that it had been ploughed down, surviving as a mound 26 metres in diameter and 1 metre high.

In addition, this site is visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs {4}, measuring approximately 8.7 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452448 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 153 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> 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.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 349 (Index). SDO12304.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1268570 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 27 2024 4:56PM