Monument record MDO3231 - Bowl Barrow in the Wireless Station Group, Winterborne St Martin

Possible ditched bowl barrow roughly 23m in diameter, possibly forming a double barrow with an adjacent barrow, as both appear surrounded by same hour-glass shaped ditch. Ploughed almost flat. The site is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY 65099000. A barrow, probably a ditched bowl, and possibly forming a double barrow with that described above. Both appear to be surrounded by the same hour-glass shaped ditch on vertical air photograph CPE/UK/1934: 5090. Ploughed almost flat. <1>

SY 65068999. A barrow, probably a ditched bowl, on a south-east slope. Ploughed almost flat. <3>

B. SY 65088999: diameter 12.0m., height 0.2m. Nothing survives of the surrounding ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Possible ditched bowl barrow roughly 23m in diameter, possibly forming a double barrow with Winterborne St. Martin 130, both appear surrounded by same hour-glass shaped ditch. The site is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <7> and was digitally plotted as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 65078999) 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 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 22-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 338 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Diam 12.0m and ht 0.2m. Field regularly ploughed and in ley pasture. 1/5/D.’

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Monuments Record, 04-AUG-1995, NMR SY6589/5 (15372/27) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11772.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451840 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 3 2024 9:11AM