Monument record MDO3322 - Bowl barrow on Lankham Eweleaze, Winterbourne Abbas

'A' Under crops and not investigated, but this barrow could not be seen from 60.0m distance. <2>

'B' is a ditchless bowl barrow with a heavy scatter of flint. 'A' is probably similar. <3>

'A' - (SY 61529162) (?) Bowl barrow, slightly oval and ploughed measuring 38 ft by 34 ft and 3 ft high on the summit of a ridge (5). Grinsell refers to the same barrow (Grinsell's No 13) as 12 paces diameter and 1 ft high. <4-5>

'A'. SY 61529162. Bowl barrow, diameter 16.0 metres, height 0.7 metres. No visible ditch. Both barrows are ploughed-down stony mounds. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible a low earthwork mound on aerial photographs. <7-8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

('A') - SY 61529162 'B' - SY 61669147) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 24-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> 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.

'(51) Bowl (?) (SY 69 SW; 61529162) on summit of ridge above 500 ft. Slightly oval, measuring 38 ft. by 34 ft., ht. 3 ft. Ploughed.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 017-019 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11163.

<8> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4066-68 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11131.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453662 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 31 2023 9:09AM