Monument record MDO5261 - Bowl barrow, one of the North Down Barrow Group, Winterborne Kingston

One of a group of five barrows on a ridge. In 1970 this monument was described as around 38 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ feet high, and heavily ploughed. The barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with remains of an internal mound on aerial photographs and lidar imagery during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A group of five round barrows at the northern end of North Down have been heavily ploughed. … 'B' - (28) - SY 85189960. Bowl barrow, 38ft diameter and 1 1/2ft high. <4>

"SY 852996. Two round barrows NW of Nutley Clump. Scheduled" (These presumably refer to barrows 'A' and 'B'). <5>

'A' and 'B' only are visible in a pasture field. 'A' measures 18.5 by 17.2 metres and 0.6 metres high, while 'B' is 21.4 metres
in diameter and 0.8 metres high. All except 'C' are visible on air photographs. 'A' and 'B' revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

The barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch, 18m across, with remains of an internal mound on aerial photographs and lidar imagery during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM <9-10>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 851996) Tumuli (NR) (four shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 150 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1960 (Map). SWX1197.

('A' and 'B') Tumuli (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 304 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘These monuments lie in the N. and W. of the parish; most of them have been damaged, some severely so, by ploughing. … Nos. (27-31) form a group on North Down. … The North Down Group of five barrows lies at the N. end of the Down, just within the parish boundary and on the spine of a N.E.-S.W. ridge, at about 350 ft. O.D. All the mounds have been heavily ploughed. … (28) Bowl (85189960), 80 yds. E. of (27). Diam. 38 ft., ht. 1½ ft.’

<5> 1978, List of ancient monuments in England: Volume 1, Northern England; Volume 2, Southern England; Volume 3, East Anglia and the Midlands Vol 2, 73 (Monograph). SWX2557.

<6> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, F1 03/06/1981 (Unpublished document). SDO16261.

<6.1> Ordnance Survey, 27-SEP-1979, OS 79/140/48-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19632.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/096 RCHME Inventory: Dorset III (Central) (Unpublished document). SDO17384.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455704 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<9> National Monuments Record, 06-JUN-2007, NMR 24629/43 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19883.

<10> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 2:42PM