Monument record MDO3408 - Bowl barrow, one of the North Hill Barrow Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is part of a group of barrows located on the summit of North Hill.

Two round barrows on the summit of North Hill 'A' - SY 62959001. Bowl barrow, 66ft diameter and 5ft high. <2-3>

A: SY 62949000. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0m., height 1.8m. No visible ditch. Both barrows are in arable but unploughed. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is part of a group of barrows located on the summit of North Hill. <6>

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

(A-SY 62959000; B-SY 63028997) Tumulus (NR) twice

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 155-6 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> 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.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 10-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 243 (Index). SDO12304.

Situated in a field in apparently established grass although was arable in 1980 (OS). The barrow was unploughed and in good condition apart from an area on its W edge which appears to have been spread by ploughing. 1/2/B

<6> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452253 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 1:49PM