Monument record MDO3224 - Bowl Barrow in the Wireless Station Group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age barrow visible as a cropmarked mound and outer ditch 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; 'F' - (124) - SY 64979023. Ditched double bowl (?) barrow, ploughed almost flat (a) (b). Listed by Grinsell as bowl barrow, 28 paces diameter and 2 ft high. <1> <3>

'F'. SY 64969023. Barrow, diameter 16.0 metres approximately, height 0.3 metres. It appears as a single circular mound ploughed almost flat. There is no visible evidence of a double mound or of a ditch. 'A', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age barrow visible as a cropmarked mound and outer ditch 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAR-81 (Unpublished document).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 331 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 16.0m approx. and ht 0.3m. There is no visible evidence of a double mound or a ditch. Field in ley pasture. 1/5/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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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> 05-MAY-1989, NMR OS/89137 463-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11137.

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

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Dec 24 2024 11:26AM