Monument record MDO3207 - Bowl barrow in the Rew group, Winterborne St Martin

A bowl barrow. In 1981, the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 28 metres in diameter and 1.8 metres high, with no visible ditch. The mound is crossed by the parish boundary with Winterborne Steepleton, marked by a hedge.

A bowl barrow with a diameter of 26.0m and a maximum height of 1.2m crossed by a north-south hedge, the barrow has been under the plough and spread in the east and west, except for a narrow ridge on either side of the hedge. Ditchless and grass covered. <2>

Round barrow of ? Bowl type (SY 63629013) about 60ft diameter and about 5ft high. Ploughed. <3-4>

SY 63629013. Bowl barrow, diameter 28.0 metres, height 1.3 metres, ploughed over, except for a 3.0 metre wide ridge where the hedgerow crosses it. There is no visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 63629013) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 09-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 151 (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, 470 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘REW GROUP (SY 69 SW). Five, possibly seven barrows, including one probable disc barrow, on summit of hill in the extreme N.W. of the parish. Two were probably excavated by Sydenham: his no. 1 contained two primary contracted inhumations and a cremation at bottom of grave beneath a flint cairn. In the cairn was an extended child inhumation with small vessel (in D.C.M.), and at the top was an inurned cremation. On S. of the mound was a cremation in a biconical urn with remains probably of a necklace consisting of cylindrical bone bead, faience quoit-bead, faience star-bead and cowrie shell. Nearby was a fourth inurned cremation, and a fifth cremation lay near the surface with a fragmentary urn. In the top of mound was extended child inhumation (Archaeologia XXX (1844), 329–31; C.T.D., tovp, no. 70; Abercromby II, 42; Ant. J. XIII (1933), 448; Butler and Smith (1956), 35). A barrow nearby contained a cremation and an extended inhumation (C.T.D., tovp, no. 71).
(107) Bowl (?) (63629013) crossed by parish boundary with Winterbourne Steepleton 170 yds. S.W. of Rew. Diam. about 60 ft., ht. about 5 ft. Ploughed.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 06-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 252 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 26.0m and max. ht. 1.2m. The barrow is crossed by a hedge and has been under the plough and has been spread on both sides except for a narrow ridge where the hedgerow crosses it. Infested by badgers. 1/5/E

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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453760 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 1:54PM