Monument record MDO3421 - Bronze Age barrow, one of the Gaythorne Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs. It is one of a group of potential barrows located on Blagdon Hill.

Probably a lynchet corner. <3>

(Centred SY 621879). the 'Gaythorne Group' of barrows is situated on naturally hillocky heath, now largely arable, making it uncertain which rises are barrows. 'A' Almost certainly natural. <4>

'A' SY 61888788. Nothing visible on the ground at this reference. About 20.0m east is the end of a prominent lynchet.
Of this group of mounds only 'E' is certainly indentifiable now, as a barrow. 'A' and 'B' deleted from 1:2500 MSD. <5>

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, measuring approximately 20 metres in diameter, is visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs <8> 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.

('A' - SY 61888788) Tumulus (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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-MAR-55 (Unpublished document).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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 223 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible barrow in permanent pasture. 1/6/E

<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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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 2:06PM