Monument record MDO3233 - Bowl barrow north east of Allington Place, Winterborne St Martin

A mound interpreted as a possible bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 45 feet in diameter with a mound about a foot high; it was being ploughed at that time and has been since. Visible on aerial photographs taken in 1976 as a cropmark mound 25m in diameter. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

(SY 66158977) Tumulus (NR) (site of) (NAT) (2)

SY 66198978. Bowl barrow on a south-west slope. Diameter 45 feet, height 1 foot. Ploughed. (1,3)

SY 66158976. Bowl barrow in permanent pasture. Diameter 28.0m., height 1.2m. (maximum). No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)

Possible bowl, 45ft. In diam and 1ft. High, has been ploughed <2>.

Visible on aerial photographs <3> as a cropmark mound 25m in diameter. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.<7>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript, 1959 152 (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

Dorset Barrows 1959 152

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

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 471 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> National Monuments Record, 08-JUL-1976, NMR SY6689/28/19 (JRB 3303) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11795.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 415 (Index). SDO12304.

Not visited.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451940 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 17 2023 12:08PM