Monument record MDO6624 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow 30m 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 : 'C'. Ditched bowl (?) (66928597) 60 yds. S.E. of 'A' at S.E. end of short alignment Diam. of mound 65 ft., ht. 4 1/2 ft. Overall diam. with ditch about 80 ft. (V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 1061). Probably contained primary inurned cremation in a cist, with
more than 20 secondary inurned cremations in the mound. 'D' Ditched bowl (66928591) 65 yds. S. of 'C'. Diam. of mound 63 ft., ht. 5 ft. Overall diam. with ditch about 80 ft. (V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934, 1061). Probably contained primary inhumation in stone-lined cist, and secondary cremation. <1> <3>

'C' SY 66928596. Bowl barrow, ploughed over, diameter 22.0m, height 1.0m. No visible ditch. 'A', 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'G' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

A bowl barrow 30m 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). … (412) Ditched bowl (?) (66928597) 60 yds. S.E. of (410) at S.E. end of short alignment with (407) and (410). Diam. of mound 65 ft., ht. 4½ ft. Overall diam. with ditch about 80 ft. (V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 1061). Probably contained primary inurned cremation in a cist, with more than 20 secondary inurned cremations in the mound. '

<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 449 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 22.0m, ht. 1.0m. Ploughed over, presents an even profile, in ley pasture. Visible as a low rise. 1/3/C

<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 7:21PM