Monument record MDO3363 - Bowl Barrow, one of Black Down Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on the north western part of Black Down. It forms part of a wider cemetery of 16 round barrows (of which 15 survive) which forms part of the wider South Dorset Ridgeway barrow group. The barrow has a mound compsoed of sand, gravel and turf, with maximum dimensions of 12 metres in diameter and about 0.8 metres in height. Surrounding the mound is a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument. The ditch has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide.

Bowl barrow, disturbed, 35ft diameter and 4 1/2ft high. (Grinsell's "Winterbourne Steepleton" No 31; RCHM No 16). <1> <3>

SY 60568786. Bowl barrow, diameter 12.0m, height 1.5m. Both barrows lie in arable but have not been ploughed; neither shows any visible evidence of a ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

SY 60578786 Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 449 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(16) Bowl (60578787) on N.E. slope 107 yds. E.N.E. of last. Diam. 35 ft., ht. 4½ ft. Disturbed.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 28-FEB-1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 199 (Index). SDO12304.

12.0m diameter and 1.5m high, land grass covered with young conifers growing on and around the mound. The mound has a lumpy and uneven surface and is positioned at the top of a steep NE facing slope. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1175526 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:39PM