Monument record MDO4012 - Bowl barrow on the parish boundary between Ibberton and Winterborne Houghton

A bowl barrow 950m NNE of Bulbarrow Farm. The barrow is crossed by a double fence and hedge along which runs the parish boundary. The barrow has a mound of 20m in diameter and up to 1.5m high where it is well preserved between the fences. The feature is visible as a sub-circular mound on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

ST 78640600. A grass covered mound, overall diameter 17.0m., and with a maximum height of 1.2m. The mound is crossed by a double fence along which runs the parish boundary. S.E. of the fence the mound is fairly well preserved but to the N.W. of the fence it has been ploughed down and averages 0.2m. high. There are vague traces of a ditch, but these are unsurveyable.

The mound is probably a bowl barrow; although a slight berm is visible on the SE, this may be the result of woodland clearance which has taken place on that side.

The position, on a straight and fairly level stretch of parish boundary does not seem to indicate a boundary mound. <1>

ST 787060. Round barrows [sic] N of Delcombe Wood, scheduled. <2>

ST 78637 106000. The feature is visible as a 7m by 9m sub-circular mound crossed by the fence line on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; EA 2018). A possible outer ditch just under 1m wide is faintly detactable on a 1945 aerial photograph (RAF 1945). The northern part of the feature is not detectable on lidar but the southern part appears to survive as a low mound and part of an outer ditch might just survive around the south side (EA 2018). The feature was digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FS 2067 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21688.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

<1> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, First OS Archaeology Field Investigator 18/08/1955 (Unpublished document). SDO16261.

<2> DOE, 1978, Scheduled Monument Notification DOE (IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978 82, 65 (Scheduling record). SWX2134.

<3> English Heritage, English Heritage Schedule Entry, 01/08/1996 (Scheduling record). SDO17387.

<5> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 201744 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 25 2026 9:01AM