Monument record MDO3286 - Bell barrow, Winterbourne Poor Lot, Winterbourne Abbas

Bronze Age bell barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. {1-2}

<1> 01-SEP-2004, NMR SY 5990/46-49 (23602/33-6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11154.

<2> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 463 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Poor Lot Group … Barrows (14-21) form a short line running roughly N.-S. across the axis of the N. alignment… (15) Bell-disc (58949065) 34 yds. N.E. of (14). Diam 24 ft., ht. 3½ ft., with berm 9 ft. wide, ditch 8 ft. wide and 1 ft. deep and outer bank 9 ft. wide.'

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 92 (Index). SDO12304.

As above. Within Guardianship area - see 22. 1/3/C

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Jul 29 2019 10:12AM