Monument record MDO3210 - Bowl barrow in the Rew group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a very low earthwork and cropmarks on aerial photographs. One of a group of 6 bowl barrows located at Rew.

Part of a barrow cemetery. In 1981 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as an earthwork mound 14 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high. The Ordnance Survey field investigator added "no visible ditch". No previous source refers to one for this barrow, suggesting that the entry in Grinsell may have been misread - Grinsell noted a slight ditch for Winterborne St Martin 3 (SY 69 SW 95). <1> <3>

`C'. SY 63669034. Bowl (?) barrow, diameter 14.0 metres, height 0.5 metres. No visible ditch. `A', `C', `D', `E' and `F' resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a very low earthwork and cropmarks on aerial photographs. One of a group of 6 bowl barrows located at Rew. <7>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 151 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred SY 637903) Tumuli (NR) (five shown)

<3> 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). … (110) Bowl (?) (63679034) 30 yds. W.N.W. of (109). Ploughed almost flat.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 249 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 14.0m and Ht. 0.5m. No visible ditch. Situated in a regularly ploughed field in ley pasture. 7/5/D

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5090-91 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11143.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453757 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1267910 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 6:57PM