Monument record MDO3316 - Bowl barrow, one of the Longlands Group, Winterbourne Abbas

Group of barrows at Longlands, including one possible bell, four in a rough alignment south west-north east along spine of spur, with possible long barrow at north east end. The three south west barrows are just above the 500 ft contour and the others above 400 ft. All damaged. Near foot of steep slope to north immediately south of the main road three further barrows at 60449020, 60519025 and 60559018 are shown on OS (1811) but there is now no sign of them.

`C` Ditched bowl 40 yds north east of `B`. Mound about 65 ft diam and 1 1/2 ft high, within oval ditch about 150 ft (north west-south east) by 90 ft (VAP CPE/UK 1934, 5098). Almost ploughed out. <1> <3>

`C` SY 60038979. Ploughed-down bowl barrow, diameter approximately 20.0m., height 0.6m. Vague and unsurveyable traces of a ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

Also visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <7>. It forms part of a group of six barrows, including a disc barrow and a bell barrow, which together are known as the Longlands barrow cemetery. A possible Neolithic long barrow (MDO3284) may have acted as a focus for the development of the cemetery during the Bronze Age.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 82, 148 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(`C` - SY 60038979; `D` - SY 60188993; `E` - SY 60478995) Tumulus (NR) (three times)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 464 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(45) Ditched bowl (60038980) 40 yds. N.E. of (44). About 65 ft. in diam. and 1½ ft. high, within oval ditch about 150 ft. (N.W.-S.E.) by 90 ft. (V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 5098). Almost ploughed out. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 147 (Index). SDO12304.

Reduced and spread by ploughing. 0.4m high and 30.0m in diameter. Ditch visible as an encircling spread of darker soil approx. 5.0m wide. Mound constructed of chalk rubble with the occasional flint nodule. The mound presents an even profile. The mound appears as a low rise in a recently cultivated field. 1/5/D

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 1972, DCC 232/0116 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11117.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452337 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 12:02PM