Monument record MDO3213 - Bowl barrow in the Rew group, Winterborne St Martin

A bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Winterborne St Martin 5 and by RCHME as Winterborne St Martin 113. Part of a barrow cemetery (see SY 69 SW 49 and associated monuments), in 1981 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 21 metres in diameter and 2.1 metres high, with "faint and unsurveyable traces of a ditch" surrounding the mound. Grinsell and RCHME both noted a hollow in the top of the mound, suggestin an episode of antiquarian excavation (see SY 69 SW 49 and 72). <1> <3>

SY 636904. Two round barrows at Rew. Scheduled No 348". (Presumably barrows `E' and `F'). <4>

`F'. SY 63669041. Bowl barrow, diameter 21.0 metres, height 2.1 metres, not ploughed. There are faint and unsurveyable traces of a ditch. `A', `C', `D', `E' and `F' resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D., `B' deleted. <5>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a cropmark and an earthwork on aerial photographs. One of a group of 6 bowl barrows located at Rew. <8-9>

<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). … (113) Bowl (63669041) 40 yds. N.W. of (112). Diam. 64 ft., ht. 6½ ft. Dug into.’

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 74 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 246 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 21.0m and ht. 2.1m. Ditch not visible. Not ploughed but situated in a field of ley pasture. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> 14-FEB-2005, NMR SY 6390/5 (23792/06) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11141.

<9> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453757 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1267960 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 6:47PM