Monument record MDO3223 - Bowl Barrow in the Wireless Station Group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a Bronze Age barrow visible as an earthwork 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.

Six round barrows situated south of the Bridport road, about 2 1/2 miles from Dorchester; 'E' - (123) - SY 64899024. Bowl barrow, 60 ft diameter and 7 ft high with large excavation hollow in top. <1> <3>

'E'. SY 64899024. Bowl barrow, diameter 21.0 metres, height 2.8 metres, not ploughed. No visible ditch. 'A', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow visible as an earthwork 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 (Roman road RR 4f). <8>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 152 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred SY 649903) Tumuli [NR] (twice)

<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> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAR-81 (Unpublished document).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 330 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 21.0m and ht. 2.8m. The field is regularly ploughed and the mound is covered by hawthorns and a mature beech tree. The rest of the mound is grass covered. 1/4/D

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1983, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1983, 141-142 (Serial). SDO83.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5090-91 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11143.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453768 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 15 2024 1:30PM