Monument record MDO6630 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow 36m 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.

Three round barrows: 'C' Ditched bowl (67318580) 60 yds. E. of 'A'. Ploughed flat but visible on Allen's O.A.P. (Ashmolean Museum No.154), apparently at 'Celtic' field angle. <1> <3>

There is no visible trace of barrow 'C'. <4>

An RCHME level 3 air photographic interpretation project (Event UID 932322) was carried out on this monument in October 1993. The changes noted were as follows: 'C' SY 67318580 This barrow appears as a central mound with a shallow scooped ditch around it. It is truncated on its eastern side by the field boundary. The archive produced by this project (Collection UID 932274) is held by the RCHME. <6>

A bowl barrow 36m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <8> 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, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 67268580) Tumulus (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 GROUUP (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). … (418) Ditched bowl (?) (67318580) 60 yds. E. of (416). Ploughed flat but visible on Allen's O.A.P. (Ashmolean Museum No. 154), apparently at 'Celtic' field angle. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 457 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. Field in ley pasture. 7/7/E

<6> Crutchley, Simon, RCHME: A354 Dorchester to Weymouth Project, 01-OCT-1993 (Unpublished document). SDO20404.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> 31-MAR-1934, NMR SY6785/5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11848.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452159 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 6:56PM