Monument record MDO3257 - Mound amongst barrows of the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, Field investigations have recorded it as an extant mound. Also visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger linear barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Several sepetrate field investigations recorded it as an extant low stoney mound {1-3}.

Also visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs {4-6}, measuring approximately 24 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

<2> 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.

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<5> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM64) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11944.

<6> 12-5-2002, PGA SY6287 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11951.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 263 (Index). SDO12304.

Flinty heather covered mound on a narrow spur branching North of the Ridgeway. 7/2/B

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 12:53PM