Monument record MDO3300 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

C. Bowl barrow. Diameter 24 paces, height 7 ft. <3>

C. A tree covered bowl barrow, diameter 16.0m, height 2.0m, with a ditch 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep. <4>

<1> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch, 1903 (Map). SWX7265.

[Group Centred SY59139055] TUMULI [OE]

<2> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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.

'(29) Ditched bowl (59169053) in woodland 125 yds. E.S.E. of (28). Diam. 52 ft., ht. 6½ ft., with ditch about 10 ft. wide.'

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 99 (Index). SDO12304.

Situated in woodland. Four large trees grow out of the ivy covered mound, 3 beech trees and a sycamore. There are two animal burrows on the south side of the barrow and an E-W aligned track obscures the barrow ditch on the south. An electricity sub-station exists a few metres south of the barrow and may be associated with concrete platforms whcih obscure part of the barrow and barrow ditch. On the north the barrow ditch is filled with tree stumps, and it is only on the east that the ditch is easily traceable. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 883067 (Index). SDO14738.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451215 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 10 2024 6:37PM