Monument record MDO3211 - Disc barrow in the Rew group, Winterborne St Martin

A probable disc barrow, listed by Grinsell as Winterborne St Martin 3 (in his list of bowl barrows) and by RCHME as Winterborne St Martin 111. Part of a barrow cemetery. In 1981 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 14 metres in diameter and circa 0.5 metres high, surrounded by an outer bank enclosing an area 30 metres in diameter (measured from the top of the bank) The bank was only visible as an earthwork on the south and east sides only. RCHME had previously noted a ring ditch surrounding the mound visible on air photographs as a cropmark circa 80 feet in diameter. <1> <3>

`D'. SY 63689036. Disc barrow, diameter of mound 14.0 metres, height 0.5 metres, diameter of top of outer bank 30.0 metres.
Outer bank visible on south and east only. `A', `C', `D', `E' and `F' resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D., `B' deleted. <4>

Site of a possible Bronze Age disc barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. One of a group of 6 bowl barrows located at Rew. <7-8>

<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). … (111) Disc (?) (63699036) 28 yds. N.E. of (110). Diam. of mound about 40 ft., with ditch-circle about 80 ft. in diam. visible on V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 5091. 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 248 (Index). SDO12304.

14.0m diameter and 0.4m high. Bank and ditch no longer visible. Situated in a regularly ploughed field in ley pasture. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> 14-FEB-2005, NMR SY 6390/5 (23792/06) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11141.

<8> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453757 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1267929 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 6:55PM