Monument record MDO3288 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: disc barrow

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

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

<2> 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 … (17) Disc (58959069) on crest of E. slope, 19 yds. N.E. of (16). Total diam. about 70ft. Diam. of central mound 21ft., ht. 1½ ft., with berm is 9ft. wide, within ditch formerly 8 ft. wide and outer bank about 11ft. wide.'

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 105 (Index). SDO12304.

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

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Feb 6 2015 11:45AM