Monument record MDO3204 - Bowl barrow south of Higher Ashton Farm Winterborne St Martin

Possible bowl, 33ft. in diam and 1ft. high. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY 65768733. Pond-barrow 76 feet in diameter and four feet deep. <1>

Bowl barrow (as described by RCHM) There is nothing in the vicinity that remotely resembles a pond barrow. <2>

SY 65788735. Bowl barrow on ridge of a spur. Diameter 3 feet, height 1 foot. Grass-covered with vague traces of a ditch. <4>

SY 65768735. Bowl barrow, ploughed almost flat. Diameter 7.0m., height 0.1m. Under grass with no visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished MSs) (Unpublished document). SWX2678.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 08-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 173 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> 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.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 364 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl barrow diameter 7.0m and Ht. 0.1m. Situated in a field of ley pasture. 7/6/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1061-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11826.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451946 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 29 2022 7:31AM