Monument record MDO3199 - Bowl barrow south east of Four Barrow Hill Winterborne St Martin

Bowl, 48ft. in diam and ploughed almost flat. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Bowl, 48ft. in diam and ploughed almost flat. <3>

'B' SY 65688707. Bowl barrow, diameter 16.0m., height 0.2m. Both barrows lie in arable: neither has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MS.D. <4>

Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <6>. 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 65688704) 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, 469 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 362 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 16.0m and Ht. 0.1m. A distinctive area of darker soil with chalk and flints. Cultivated. 7/6/E

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1061-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11826.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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

Record last edited

Oct 27 2023 11:22AM