Monument record MDO5263 - Bowl barrow, one of the North Down Group, Winterborne Kingston

One of a group of five barrows on a ridge. In 1970 this monument was described as heavily ploughed, and visible as a very slight mound. The barrow is visible as a cropmark double-concentric ring ditch with remains of an internal mound on aerial photographs and lidar imagery during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

The site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark double-concentric ring ditch with remains of an internal mound (8m across) on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <2-4>. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RP 3349-51 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19881.

<1> 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. … (30) Bowl (85209969), 60 yds. N.E. of (29), is in similar condition.’

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<3> National Monuments Record, 06-JUN-2007, NMR 24629/43 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19883.

<4> John Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3305/24 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19884.

Record last edited

Jun 20 2023 8:43PM