Monument record MDO5338 - Bowl barrow, Winterborne Whitechurch

A bowl barrow situated at the top of a shallow combe on Whatcombe Down. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 50 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. J C Mansel-Pleydell and W Boyd Dawkins excavated a barrow in the vicinity in 1898, and it is probably this barrow.

A grass covered bowl barrow 17.0m in diameter by 0.4m high. There is no visible surrounding ditch. <2>

Bowl barrow, ST 85510197, 25 paces in diameter by 4ft high. Possibly opened in 1864 by William Shipp. (See ST 80 SE 49). <3>

Bowl Barrow at ST 85500197, 50ft diameter by 1 foot high. Possibly opened in 1898 by J C Mansel-Pleydell and W Boyd Dawkins. (See ST 80 SE 50). <4>

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

(ST 85510197) Tumulus

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 19-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 157 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 314 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘A barrow at Whatcombe, possibly (26), was opened in 1898 by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell and W. Boyd Dawkins; the ditch was smoothed into a 'well-defined track by human feet circling round the burial mound' (Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society XVIII (1900), 122). … (26) Bowl (85500197), about 35 yds. from Combs Ditch on a gentle S. slope at 350 ft. O.D., lies at the head of a shallow combe on Whatcombe Down; it has been much damaged by ploughing. Diam. about 50 ft., ht. 1 ft.’

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205646 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 29 2024 12:22PM