Monument record MDO3197 - Bell barrow in the Four Barrow Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Possible bell, ploughed almost flat. Ditch is 140ft. in diam and apparent berm is about 15ft. wide. An external ditch, internal bank and central pit/ hollow are visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Four Barrow Hill Group. Six barrows, including two probable bells in south-west to north-east line on top of a broad spur. All have been ploughed. 'F'. Bell (?) (65188808) 60 yds. N.E. of 'E'. Ploughed almost flat. Ditch 140 ft. in diam., apparently separated from mound by berm about 15 ft. wide, visible on V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 3091. <1> <3>

SY 651880. Round barrows on Four Barrow Hill. Scheduled. <4>

'F' SY 65178808. Bell (?) barrow, ploughed almost flat, diameter 28.0m approximately, height 0.3m, no trace of berm. All the barrows are in arable and have been ploughed. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

An external ditch, internal bank and central pit/ hollow are visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 154 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred at SY 65138798) Tumuli (NR) (twice)

<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> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 74 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 358 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 28.0m and ht. 0.3m. No trace of a berm of this barrow in ley pasture. 1/5/D

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> 14-JUL-1948, CUCAP (BJ5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11805.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451910 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 1:05PM