Monument record MDO3294 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: disc barrow

C - disc tumulus with ditch and bank, Diam between tops of banks is 35 paces. (2)

C. Disc barrow. Mound 33ft diam, 2ft high, Berm 17 ft wide. Ditch 11 ft wide, 1 ft deep. Outer bank 12 ft wide, 1 ft high. (3)

C. A disc barrow: central mound diameter 10.0m, height 0.4m, ditch 3.0m wide, 0.5m deep, outer bank 4.0m wide, and 0.5m high. Grass covered. (4)

Site of a Bronze Age disc barrow at Winterbourne Poor Lot. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[Group centred SY59239090] TUMULI [OE]

<2> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch, 20-4-24 (Map). SWX7265.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 03-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> 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 … (23) Disc (59159083) across valley from (22) on S.W. slope of 9°. Overall diam. about 100 ft. Diam. of mound 33 ft. and 1½ ft. but disturbed. Berm, ditch and outer bank each about 12ft. Wide; ditch 1 ft. deep and bank 1 ft. high. Bank ploughed away on S.E.'

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 82 (Index). SDO12304.

Site unploughed with the possible exception of the NE section of the outer bank which is barely visible. The outer edges of the outer bank appears to have been encroached on; the plough creating steeper edges. The central mound presents a disturbed and uneven profile. Other damage is limited to cattle erosion particularly on the SE outer edge of the outer bank (in 3 places) and 1sq metre on the central mound. 1/2/B

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451222 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 23 2025 12:22PM