Monument record MDO3216 - Bowl Barrow in the Third Milestone Group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a possible hengiform enclosure or bowl barrow of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age origin visible as a cropmarked mound and outer bank on aerial photographs. It forms part of a wider group of round barrows running in an irregular east-west line on the crest of a ridge immediately south of the A35.

Three bowl barrows near the third milestone from milestone from Dorchester were examined by Grinsell in 1954. 'C' - SY 64389032. Bowl barrow, 20 paces diameter and 4 ft high. <1>

'C' - (116) - SY 64389032. Bowl (?) barrow, ploughed and only 2 1/2 ft high. <3>

SY 643904. Three round barrows south of Hart Hill Plantation. Scheduled. (See SY 69 SW 72 for probable excavation of some of these
barrows). <4>

'C'. SY 64389031. Bowl barrow, diameter 25.0 metres approximately, height 1.0 metres. Ploughed; no visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

A bowl barrow, part of a barrow cemetery. In 1981 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a mound 25 metres in diameter and 1 metre high, with no visible ditch.

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a cropmarked mound and outer bank on aerial photographs. The outer bank is approximately 50m in diameter. Alternatively it could be a possible hengiform enclosure of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age origin. It forms part of a wider group of round barrows running in an irregular east-west line on the crest of a ridge immediately south of the A35 (Roman road RR 4f). <9-11>

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

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

(Centred SY 643903) Tumuli (NR)

<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.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAR-81 (Unpublished document).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 323 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 25.0m and ht. 1.8m. No visible ditch. Situated in a field of regularly improved ley pasture. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> 29-OCT-1997, NMR SY6490/2 (15847/08) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11148.

<10> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5090-91 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11143.

<11> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453765 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1268010 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 10 2024 7:35AM