Monument record MDO3298 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bell barrow

[Group Centred SY59139055] TUMULI [OE] (1)

A [SY59209051] Pond barrow at earthen circle. No signs of ditch. Centred area seems lower than adjacent natural level. (2)

A Pond barrow. Enclosed area 90 ft diam, 1 ft deep. Outer bank 15 ft wide, 2 ft high (Paces coverted to ft)
B. Bell barrow. Mound. Diameter 90 ft, height 11 ft, Berm 9ft wide. Ditch 12 ft wide, 1 ft deep (paces converted to ft)
C. Bowl barrow. Diameter 24 paces, height 7 ft.
D and E. Twin bell barrow. D. 60 ft diameter, 7 ft high with a berm 12ft wide. E.63 ft diameter, 7ft high with a berm 15ft
wide and an outer ditch 15ft wide and 1ft deep (?). The south and south west sides of this site are obscured by a hedge and
road; the berm and ditch are in good condition on the north west. (3)

A. A pond barrow, overall diameter 30.0m, the bank being 5.0m wide and 0.6m high. The NE part of the barrow destroyed by a
modern road. Tree covered.

B. A grass covered bell barrow 34.0m diameter and 3.0m high, the berm being 4.0m wide. A ditch 4.0m wide and 0.2m deep
except where it is crossed on the W. by a grass track.

C. A tree covered bowl barrow, diameter 16.0m, height 2.0m, with a ditch 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep.

D&E As in T3 each approx 3.0m high and diameter 17.0m. Only E has a ditch around the NW and NE 4.0m wide and 0.3m deep.
(4)


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

Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<1> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<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.

'Bell (59139064) immediately S.E. of (26). Diam. 60 ft., ht. 7 ft. Apparently shares ditch with (26) on N.E., but disturbed on S. and E.'

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 96 (Index). SDO12304.

Fenced in corner of field, it is scrub covered but similar to RCHM but slightly truncated at its base by ploughing. Rabbit burrows present on this barrow. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451215 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 12:34PM