Monument record MDO3190 - 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 a cropmarked circular 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.

'J' Bowl (64958721) 100 yds South East of 'H' Diam 115 ft, ht 15 ft. Excavation trench across centre. Fir-covered. (2,3)

'J'. SY 64948720. Tree-covered bowl barrow in small copse. Diameter 37.0m., height 4.4m. 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 Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a linear barrow cemetery comprising bowl barrows, a pond barrow, and a quadruple bell barrow (MDO3183-91).

In 1980, the Ordnance Survey <3> described it as a tree-covered bowl barrow in a small copse, with a mound 37 metres in diameter and 4.4 metres high. Grinsell reported a ditch surrounding the barrow, though the Ordnance Survey could see no surface trace of a ditch. RCHME recorded an excavation trench across the centre of the mound. However, there appears to be no record of this excavation.

In addition, this site is visible as a cropmarked circular mound on aerial photographs {4-8}, measuring approximately 19 metres in diameter. Traces of a posssible surrounding outer bank and ditch are also visible, approximately 41 metres in diameter and cut to the north by a later field boundary. 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.

'(90) Bowl (64958721) 100 yds. S.E. of (89). Diam. 115 ft., ht. 15 ft. Excavation trench across centre. Fir-covered.'

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document).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

<5> unknown date, NMR SY 6487/1 (CCC 11752/1633) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11941.

<6> 12-6-1956, CUCAP (TC8) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11942.

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

<8> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<9> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 350 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 37.0m and ht. 4.4m. Covered in beech and coniferous trees. Ditch noted in 1959 is no longer visible. 1/2/C

<10> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1268590 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 27 2024 4:57PM