Monument record MDO3377 - Bowl barrow west of Blagdon Barn, one of the Gaythorne Barrow Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, recorded as an extant mound by RCHM and also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is one of a group of barrows located on Blagdon Hill.

(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.

'C' Probable bowl barrow. An elongated and irregular mound about 2 feet high. <3-4>

'C' SY 62118797. An irregular, oval-shaped mound, very mutilated and truncated on the north by a road. It measures 29.0m. by 18.0m and 0.7m. average height; there is no visible ditch. Possibly a barrow but not certainly so. Of this group of mounds only 'E' is certainly indentifiable now, as a barrow. 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'G' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

It is also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <8> measuring approximately 14 metres in diameter, 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 Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

('B' - SY 62048799; 'C' - SY 62118795; 'D' - SY 62148796; 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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-MAR-55 (Unpublished document).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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 228 (Index). SDO12304.

An oval, irregular mound, very mutilated. There is no visible ditch. Possibly a barrow but not certainly so. In a field apparently in permanent pasture. 1/4/D

<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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 1:58PM