Monument record MDO3370 - Bowl barrow on Cowleaze, Winterbourne Steepleton

SY 60728861. Bowl barrow, 50 ft in diameter and 6 ft high. Disturbed. <1> <3>

SY 60718861. Bowl barrow in arable but not ploughed over. Diameter 15.5m and height 1.5m, no visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, approximately 15 metres in diameter, is visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs <7> and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. It is one of a group of several Bronze Age Barrows noted on Sheep Down.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 156 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 60728861) 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, 471 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 28-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 192 (Index). SDO12304.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3097-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11790.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452358 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 19 2023 4:20PM