Monument record MDO3307 - Bowl barrow, one of the Three Barrow Clump Group, Winterbourne Abbas

Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of ten. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 18 feet in diameter with a mound about 1 foot high, and surrounded by a ditch about 6 feet wide.

See air photo STJ/BZ067 … G. [SY 59649022] A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 7.0m., height 0.4m, crossed by a N-S modern fence. (Quinnell 1954)

National Record of the Historic Environment, 451268 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F2 JR 24-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

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

[Group Centred SY 59719022] TUMULI [OE]

Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 125 (Index). SDO12304.

Ditch no longer visible. The mound is now crossed N-S by a modern fence. To the E of the fence the mound is clear and covered in established grass. On the W side the mound has been ploughed out, and the field is under ley pasture but is regularly ploughed. 1/3/C

Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Quinnell, N V, Various, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<1> 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.

‘THREE BARROW CLUMP GROUP (SY 59 SE). Ten barrows, including one, possibly two, bells and one pond barrow, on the top and N. slope of a spur on S. side of S. Winterborne valley. Most have been damaged. … (36) Ditched bowl (59659023) on N. slope 110 yds. N.E. of (35). Diam. 18 ft., ht. 1 ft., with ditch about 6 ft. wide.’

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