Monument record MDO3296 - Bowl barrow, one of the Winterbourne Poor Lot barrow group, Winterbourne Abbas

[A - SY 59319098 B - SY 59219085 C - SY 59149083] A - ? Pit at SW end. Has been ploughed - now grass. Possibly round. No evidence of long barrow. <2>

A. Perhaps upcast from the adjoining pit.<3>

A. A grass covered mound elongated in a NW-SE direction and measuring 18.0 x 10.0m with a height of appox 1.0m.

A larger pit than that shown on the 1/2500 exists to the S. The mound has no side ditches, and although an element of doubt exists, it may well be a mutilated (? Excavated) barrow. Any upcast from the pit is unlikely to have been placed uphill and above the pit and it is doubtful if the mound represents such material. <4>

<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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 03-JAN-55 (Unpublished document).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.

'(25) Mound, possible bowl (59259083) 24 yds. S.E. of E. mound of (24), inside and presumably later than, 'Celtic' field. Diam. 20 ft., ht. 6 ins.'

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 84 (Index). SDO12304.

This barrow, situated in a field of ley pasture, could not be found and presumably has been ploughed out. 7/7/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451222 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2023 3:22PM