Monument record MDO3369 - Bowl barrow, Winterbourne Steepleton

Site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, recorded as an extant mound by RCHM. One of a cluster of three. Also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs.

A cluster of three barrows lies on a knoll above a steep west slope below and about 500 yds east north east of Black Down. They are clearly visible from north. SY 61738770. Bowl barrow on a slight south east slope 50 yards south east of SY 68 NW 123. Diameter 33 ft, ht 4 1/2ft, slightly damaged. <1-2>

SY 61738771. Ploughed-down bowl barrow, diameter 13.5m, height 1.0m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <3>

One of a cluster of three probable Bronze Age barrows located on a knoll above a steep west slope below and about 500 yards east-north-east of Black Down. Recorded by the RCHM as an extant earthwork, measuring 33ft. In diam and 4.5ft. High, slightly damaged <2>. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1980 described it as a bowl barrow, ploughed down <3>.

It is also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <6>, shown as a circular plough-levelled mound surrounded by an outer ditch, approximately 13 metres in diameter. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 157, 167 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 471 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 07-APR-1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 220 (Index). SDO12304.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> 25-4-1968, NMR OS/68078 001-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11896.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1175494 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 30 2022 4:04PM