Monument record MDO6621 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow 24m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'A'. Ploughed out bowl barrow.
'B'. Bowl barrow ploughed almost flat. <1> <3>

There are no visible remains of either of these barrows. <4>

A bowl barrow 24m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <7> as a cropmark. 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.

('A' - SY 66828607; (B' - SY 66868612) Tumuli (NR) (sites of) (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 456 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(R.8) RIDGEWAY HILL GROUP (SY 68 NE). Twenty-one barrows, about 300 yds. S.E. of the E. end of Group R.7, strung irregularly along the broad Ridgeway top here running over and between two rises defined by 500 ft. ring contours. The W. part of the group is in Weymouth, the E. in Bincombe, amongst Ancient Field Group (7). Most of the barrows have been damaged by ploughing and excavation: eleven, opened in the 19th century cannot now be identified, but three of Warne's excavations can probably be located (Weymouth (412–14); see also Archaeologia xxx (1844), 333, nos. 13–15). … (409) Bowl (?) (66878613) 80 yds. N.E. of (408), forming short alignment with it and (407). Ploughed almost flat. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 446 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. In a field which is regularly ploughed and planted in kale and turnips. 7/7/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> 26-MAR-1968, NMR SY6785/4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11846.

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

Record last edited

Nov 19 2023 8:31AM