Monument record MDO6634 - Bowl barrow, one of the Northdown Barn Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow, one of five on the south side of the Ridgeway at East Hill. In 1970 this monument was reported as having once been around sixty feet in diameter with a mound four feet high, before being ploughed almost flat.

Four round barrows at Northdown Barn consist of: ('D') Bowl (71008475) 60 yds. E of ('C') Diam 60 ft., ht 4 ft, before being ploughed almost flat. <3>

'D' - Ploughed out. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 709847) Tumuli (NR) (four shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 142 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 457 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(R.13) NORTHDOWN BARN GROUP (SY 78 SW). Five bowls on the S. side of the Ridgeway along the narrow col between West Hill and East Hill Groups. A mound (LVG 48) at 70728481 is probably spoil from an adjacent pit. The barrows are in Weymouth and Poxwell. … (422) Bowl (71008475) 60 yds. E. of (421). Diam. 60 ft., ht. 4 ft., before being ploughed almost flat.'

<3.1> Warne, C, 1866, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset (1866) (Monograph). SWX8166.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-JUN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 625 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. In field planted with kale. 7/7/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454363 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:47PM