Monument record MDO3376 - Bowl barrow, one of the Gaythorne Barrow Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

(Centred SY 621879). The 'Gaythorne Group' of barrows is situated on naturally hillocky heath, now largely arable, making it uncertain which rises are barrows. 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'G', described below, are all under grass.

'G' Probable bowl barrow about 35 ft diameter by 1 1/2ft high. It forms a short alignment with 'C' and 'D'. <3-4>

'G'. SY 62058794. Possible bowl barrow, diameter 16.0m., height 0.5m. No visible ditch. 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'G' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, measuring approximately 13.5 metres in diameter, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <8> and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. It is one of a group of potential barrows located on Blagdon Hill (MDO3421-4 & MDO3376-9).

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25 inch scale map, 1902 (Map). SDO18020.

'E' - SY 62188806; 'G' - SY 62058794) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 156-7 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 472 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 227 (Index). SDO12304.

12.0m diameter, 0.6m high grass covered and unploughed. Probably natural in a naturally hilly area. 7/2/B

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4279-81 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11791.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 1:55PM