Monument record MDO3229 - Bowl Barrow in the Wireless Station Group, Winterborne St Martin

'B'. Ditched bowl barrow in a small wood on a south slope. 60 feet diameter by 9 feet high with an excavation hollow on the top. <1> <4>

'B'. Grass and tree-covered barrow 21.5 metres diameter by 2.9 metres high. It is surrounded by a ditch 5.0 metres wide and 0.5 metres deep on all but the north-east side. The lower slopes are gradual and it may be a bell barrow. <2>

'B' SY 64788992. Tree-covered bowl barrow, diameter 26.0m., height 4.2m. Ditch 6.0m. Wide visible on west and south only. Extensive animal burrows and other mutilations cover the entire barrow. There is no real evidence of a berm to suggest a bell-barrow (authority 4). 'A' and 'B' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

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

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 09-SEP-60 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 64778989; 'B' - SY 64788993; 'C' - SY 64828998) Tumuli (NR)

<4> 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.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 334 (Index). SDO12304.

Tree covered bowl barrow 26.0m in diameter and 4.2m high. Ditch 6.0m wide on the W and S side only. Extensive animal burrows and mutilations cover the whole of the mound. There is no real evidence to suggest this might be a bell barrow. 1/3/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452256 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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