Monument record MDO3203 - Bowl barrow in the Ashton group, Winterborne St Martin

A mound interpreted as a possible bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being 21 metres in diameter, almost flat and covered in fir trees. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Four barrows in a west north west-east south east line above the 400 ft contour. All have been ploughed. 'D' Bowl (?) (SY 66138716) 65 yards east south east of 'C'. Almost flat. Fir covered. <1> <3>

'D' SY 66138716. Bowl barrow in fir thicket. Diameter 16.0m, height 0.4m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>


Visible as an earthwork 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.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document).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 369 (Index). SDO12304.

Diam. 16.0m and Ht 0.4m. Covered in beech trees.

<6> Royal Air Force, 24-JAN-1959, RAF F12/58/267 0058-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11800.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB86/05032 (Index). SDO14738.

QUADRUPLE BARROW - CONSISTS OF 4 BOWL BARROWS, NONE WITH DITCHES. 3 ARE FLAT-TOPPED, 2 HAVE BEEN PLOUGHED AND 2 ARE SITUATED IN A FIR THICKET. Donor: UNKNOWNCopyright: UNKNOWN

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451890 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 27 2023 11:40AM