Monument record MDO3406 - Hengiform monument or barrow, Pound Hill, Winterbourne Steepleton

Group of five barrows on Pound Hill: 'E' (Winterbourne Steepleton No 59) SY 62439085 (?) Ditched bowl barrow, about 70ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high. A circular soil-mark suggesting a ditch about 100ft in diameter appears on air photograph. <2> <4>

'E' SY 624908. Round Barrow on Pound Hill. Scheduled No 512. <5>

'E'. SY 62469083. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0 metres, approximately, height 1.0 metres. Ploughed down. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

A possible hengiform enclosure or barrow of Neolithic or Bronze Age origin is visible as three concentirc ring ditches on aerial photographs. The outer-most ring ditch is approximately 30m in diameter. The two innner ring ditches are 18m and 11m in diameter, respectively. They may all be contemporary with one another or the result of separate phases of construction of the monument, such as the re-use or adoption of a Neolithic monument in the Bronze Age. <9-12>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(Group Centred SY 62439083) Tumuli [NR] (five shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

'B' to'E' - Centred SY 624908. Tumuli [NR] (four shown)

<4> 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.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 75 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 241 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 1.0m. Ploughed down. Situated in a field regularly ploughed and in ley pasture. 1/4/D

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> 14-JUL-1948, CUCAP (BJ6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11136.

<10> 04-AUG-1995, NMR SY 6290/2 (15372/31) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11135.

<11> 14-FEB-2005, NMR SY 6290/9 (23794/02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11134.

<12> 04-AUG-1995, NMR SY 6290/6 (15344/17) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11133.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453632 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 11:00AM