Monument record MDO3387 - Bowl barrow, one of the Big Wood Barrow Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

A double-ditched Bronze Age bowl barrow. Recorded as an extant earthwork by the RCHM and also visible as an earthwork and cropmarks on aerial photographs and LIDAR

Also visible on aerial photographs as an earthwork {1} {2} and as cropmarks {3}, appearing as a circular mound surrounded two ring ditches, the inner ditch approximately 26 metres in diameter and the outer ditch approximately 38 metres in diameter. It was additionally visible as an earthwork on LIDAR {4}. It is part of a linear Bronze Age barrow cemetery running northeast-south west along the edge of Big Wood. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Bowl barrow, 82ft. in diam and 9ft. high. {5}

<1> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3067-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11792.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4279-81 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11791.

<3> 21-4-1984, NMR OS/84037 304-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11793.

<4> 24-1-2008, LIDAR D0089652 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11794.

<5> 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.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 169 (Index). SDO12304.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Feb 15 2024 10:29AM