Monument record MDO3340 - Disc barrow, one of the Longlands Barrow Group, Winterbourne Abbas

SY 60089003. A cropmark of a probable disc barrow, 38.0 metres diameter overall with a 1.5 metres wide ditch and a 6.0 metres diameter central mound, is visible on air photographs. <1>

No remains; area under crops. <2>

A probable Bronze Age disc barrow, 38 metres in diameter, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <4-5>. The central mound has a diameter of 6 metres. It forms part of a group of six barrows, including 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> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 13-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<1.1> Ordnance Survey, 07-MAY-1979, OS 79/060/36-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19848.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 22-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 148 (Index). SDO12304.

A crop mark of a probably disc barrow, 38.0m diameter overall with a 1.5m wide ditch and a 6.0m diameter central mound, is visible on air photo. Now ploughed out. Field ploughed and newly planted. 7/7/E

<4> 23-APR-1980, NMR SY 5060/2 (1749/086) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11119.

<5> 21-APR-1984, NMR OS/84037 304-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11118.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453832 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 17 2023 4:34PM