Monument record MDO3324 - Bowl barrow, one of the Pound Hill Group, Winterbourne Abbas

'B' A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 11.0m, height 1.7m. Past ploughing has probably given the berm effect visible on the NW side and the top has been dug into. <2>

Group of five barrows on Pound Hill: 'B' (Winterbourne Abbas No 53) - SY 62309082. Bowl barrow 34 ft diameter and 5 1/2 ft high. Disturbed. <3> <5>

B: SY 62309082. Bowl barrow, 11.5 by 10.5 metres and 1.7 metres high. 'B' and 'C' have not been ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is part of a wider barrow cemetery, including a disc barrow (MDO3425) and a possible twin barrow or long barrow (MDO3407). <9-11>

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

(Group Centred SY 62439083) Tumuli [NR] (five shown)

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

'B' to'E' - Centred SY 624908. Tumuli [NR] (four shown)

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(53) Bowl (62309082). Diam. 34 ft., ht. 5½ ft. Disturbed.’

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR238 (Index). SDO12304.

‘Dimensions as above. The barrow is situated in a regularly ploughed field of ley pasture. The mound itself is unploughed but the perimeter has been steepened by basal ploughing particularly on the north. The mound is severely mutilated; with the top of the mound damaged by previous excavation. 1/4/D.’

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> 14-JUL-1948, CUCAP (BJ6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11136.

<10> 14-FEB-2005, NMR SY 6290/9 (23794/02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11134.

<11> 04-AUG-1995, NMR SY 6290/6 (15344/17) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11133.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453632 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 8 2024 4:13PM