Monument record MDO3259 - Possible barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

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

Probably one of the barrows recorded by the RCHM (site 452318) as a mound 3.6 metres diameter, 0.2 metres high {1}, although grid references for this record differ.

Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs {2}, measuring approximately 7 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Diam 3.6m and ht 0.2m. Located during field investigation. (3)

<1> 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.

<2> 11-6-1978, NMR OS/78080 100-101 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11952.

<3> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, J W Stone OS1980 (Unpublished document). SDO16261.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 271 (Index). SDO12304.

'Measurement as above. Barely visible moss covered stony platform raised above the ground surface on the N side only.'

Record last edited

Jul 16 2024 5:04PM