Monument record MDO3403 - Mound, Winterbourne Steepleton

Group of round barrows: … `E` Bowl barrow at SY 61708913, 110 yards north east of `D`. Almost destroyed. <1>

`E` Not identified. <2>

(SY 61708913) The possible barrow was proved, by excavation in 1981, to be the downgraded remnants of a geological solution hollow. <3-4>

Site of a possible Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow, one of a group of several possible barrows situated in this area (MDO3399-403) and probably associated with the Late Bronze Age settlement earthworks (MDO3411), within which they are interspersed.

Recorded as an extant mound by RCHM <1>. Also visible as an earthwork and a cropmark on aerial photographs {2-3}, measuring approximately 10 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

This possible barrow was proved, by excavation in 1981, to infact be the downgraded remnants of a geological solution hollow <3-4>. It was visible on aerial photographs <6-7> and digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 473 (Monograph). SDO150.

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 28-MAR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1982, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1981 (Serial). SDO81.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 210 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. Excavated by P J Woodward in 1981 and found to be a natural concentration of flints. Ploughed. 7/7/E

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3095-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11865.

<7> 21-4-1984, NMR OS/84038 359-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11807.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452348 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 22 2023 10:28AM