Monument record MDO6617 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Weymouth

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: 'D.' Bowl (65858661) 130 yds. E. of C . Diam. 90 ft., ht. 5 ft. Contained burnt material, including bone and several flint scrapers. <3>

'D' SY 65858661 Bowl barrow in arable, ploughed over. Diameter 35.0m, height 2.0m. No visible ditch. Re- surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A bowl barrow 31m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <8>. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway 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, 468 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(R.7) RIDGE HILL GROUP (SY 68 NW, NE). Thirty-eight barrows including one bell, four probable bells, one very large bell-disc barrow and one pond barrow, many of them having survived intact in an area extensively covered with 'Celtic' fields (see Ancient Field Group (6), and Fig. p. 626). Ridge Hill continues the Ridgeway to the E. for the next 1¾ miles to the great Ridgeway bell-disc barrow (67). The Ridgeway here is domed on top, and the barrows lie in an irregular line, mostly on the highest ground. The group includes Portesham (41–2), Weymouth (396–406) and Bincombe (13–21). Weymouth (396–404) have all been heavily ploughed and six of them were opened by E. Cunnington between 1884 and 1888, including (403), his 'Ridgeway 7'. … (404) Bowl (65858661) 130 yds. E. of (403). Diam. 90 ft., ht. 5 ft. Contained burnt material, including bone and several flint scrapers. '

<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 Cunnington, E, 1915, Cunnington MSS (Unpublished document).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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-MAY-80 (Unpublished document).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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 392 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 35.0m, ht. 2.0m. Planted in kale. Heavily ploughed. 1/3/C

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3290-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11827.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452028 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 12:44PM