Monument record MDO6615 - Bell barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Weymouth

A bell barrow 40m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs {1} as a cropmark ring ditch with an internal bank and central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: B. Bell (?) (65678660) 100 yds. E.N.E. of 'A'. Diam. about 100 ft., ht. 7 ft. Berm and ditch each about 10 ft. wide suggested by V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 1062. Excavation produced evidence of burning but no burial. <3>

'B' SY 65678660 Bell (?) barrow in arable, ploughed. Diameter approximately 40.0m, height 3.5m: No visible berm on ditch. Re- surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A bell barrow 40m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <7> as a cropmark ring ditch with an internal bank and central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 141 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SY 65748662) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 467 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3.1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1937, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1936, 20-25 (Serial). SDO39.

<3.2> Cunnington, E, 1915, Cunnington MSS (Unpublished document). SDO10110.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 26-MAR-1968, NMR SY6586/2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11838.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452028 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 7 2024 7:05AM