Monument record MDO6622 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow 25m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs 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 : 'A'. Ditched bowl (66878599) Diam. 60 ft., ht. 1 ft., and heavily ploughed. <1> <3>

'A' SY 66878599. Bowl barrow, almost ploughed out. Diameter approximately 18.0m, height 0.2m. No visible ditch. 'A', 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'G' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A bowl barrow 25m 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 SY 669859) 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, 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). … (410) Ditched bowl (66878599) 110 yds. S.E. of (407). Diam. 60 ft., ht. 1 ft., and heavily ploughed. '

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-APR-80 (Unpublished document).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

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 447 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 0.2m, presents an even profile in ley pasture. Almost ploughed out - visible as a faint swelling. N/S stone wall curves to avoid W perimeter of mound. 1/5/D

<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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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, 452014 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 7:14PM