Monument record MDO3238 - Bowl barrow in the Lanceborough group, Winterborne St Martin

Possible bowl, 3ft. high, opened by Cunnington who found nothing. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'A' A bowl barrow 33 paces in diameter 3.5 ft high. Excavated by E Cunnington. Nothing found. <1> <3>

In a low barrow in the common fields [Fordington Fields] about 1.5 miles SW of Dorchester, are MBA biconical urn containing burnt bones was found in a cist cut into the native chalk [probably applies to one of these barrows] (2 - 3)

'A'. A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow; diameter 34.0m, height 0.8m. <4>

Lanceborough Group. Four barrows including two bells and a possible bell, with a long barrow (SY 68 NE 93) and a horseshoe-shaped enclosure (SY 68 NE 94) lie on a local downland crest about 300 ft above OD some 700 yards N of the W end of the Maiden Castle 'long mound' (SY 68 NE 90). The adjacent open field furlong was called Lanceborough or Great Barrow Furlong (Tithe Map 1844), a name probably referring to 'C' the largest bell barrow in the area. All the barrows have been damaged, mostly by ploughing.

Winterborne St Martin: 'A' (137) Bowl (?) (66508937). Diameter uncertain, height 3 ft. Opened by Cunnington who found nothing. <7>

'A' SY 66508937. (?) Bowl barrow, under plough. Diameter 42.0m, height 0.7m. No visible ditch. A, C and D re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <8>

A and D no longer extant. <9>

Visible as a cropmark, 48m in diameter and comprising outer ditch, internal bank and central pit, on aerial photographs <12>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866), 49 No 81 (Monograph). SWX8166.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927-38 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 66508938; 'B' - SY 66708928; 'C' - SY 6658920; 'D' - SY 66788927) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 13-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 01-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 150, 166, 173 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> 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.

<8> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 12-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<9> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, Small Scale Reviser October 1981 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<10> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 427 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 42.0m and ht. 1.7m. Presents an even profile in ley pasture. 1/3/C

<11> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<12> National Monuments Record, 22-JUN-1976, NMR SY6689/20/15 (JRB 3084) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11796.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451927 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 11:28AM