Monument record MDO3258 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

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

Visible as a low earthwork mound on aerial photographs {1}, measuring approximately 12.4 meters in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> 12-5-2002, PGA SY6287 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11951.

<2> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 268 (Index). SDO12304.

Ditched bowl barrow, almost an identical twin of barrow 20g (40.0m NW). Overall diameter 16.0m and mound diameter 12.0m. Silted outer ditch 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep. Situated in grassland just below the spine of the Ridgeway at the head of a coombe running up from the N. Mound 0.3m high. 7/2/B

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

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Mar 18 2024 1:07PM