Monument record MDO3240 - Bowl barrow near Maiden Castle, Winterborne St Martin

('A' - SY 66448875; 'B' - SY 66438871; 'C' - SY 66438869 Tumuli (NR) (1)

'A'. Bowl barrow about 50 feet diameter by 2 feet high.

'C' Bowl barrow 50 feet diameter by 1 1/2 feet high, on the summit of the col connecting Hog Hill and Maiden Castle. (R.C.H.M. and Grinsell suggest that this is a barrow opened before 1843 by John Sydenham (his No.7). If so, all these barrows may belong to a group excavated by him. See SY 68 NE102). (2-3)

'A' SY 66428877. Bowl barrow in arable; ploughed. Diameter 14.0m., height 0.4m. No visible ditch.

'B'. No visible remains.

'C'. SY 66438869. Bowl barrow in arable; ploughed. Diameter 15.0m., height 0.6m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (4)

Possible bowl, 50ft. In diam and 2ft. High. (RCHM).
Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> National Monuments Record, 26-MAR-1968, NMR SY6689/2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11806.

<2> 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.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 421 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 14.0m and ht. 0.4m. Elongated mound orientated E-W on a NE slope. Situated in a regularly ploughed field in ley pasture. 7/5/D

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451943 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 12:45PM