Monument record MDO3364 - Bowl Barrow, one of Black Down Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on the western part of Black Down. It forms part of a wider cemetery. The barrow has a mound composed of pebble-flint and earth, with maximum dimensions of 9 metres in diameter and about 0.7 metres in height. Surrounding the mound is a quarry ditch which has become infilled over the years and now survives as a buried feature 1.5 metres wide.

Bowl barrow 30 feet diameter by 4 1/2 ft high. <3>

None of the barrows in the group has a visible ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-MAR-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 156 (Monograph). SDO132.

<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.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 201 (Index). SDO12304.

9.0m diameter, ht. 1.2m. Mound composed largely of stone mostly flint - has a grass cover At the top of a N facing slope. No visible ditch. Heathland. 1/1/A

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452340 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 5:42PM