Monument record MDO8291 - Bowl barrow, Winfrith Newburgh

A bowl barrow, no details given. <1>

A flinty but grass covered mound 15.0m. in diameter, and 0.7m.high. No sign of a berm or a ditch. It has been under the
plough, and there are no indications of excavation. No surface finds were made in the vicinity of this bowl barrow. <2>

SY 80378317. Bowl barrow, 42ft. diameter and 2ft. high. but ploughed. There is now no trace of a second mound (shown on OS 1" 1811) immediately to the north-north-east. <5>

A ploughed bowl barrow now 12m. in diameter and 0.2m. high; visible as a patch with lighter clay content and with little
extra flint. There is no similar soilmark or indication of a second mound to the N.N.E. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

The probable site of a Bronze Age barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 <8>, it has since been plough-levelled and visible as a soil mark <9>. The small mound (15m across) was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 10-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 05-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 80368317) Tumulus (NR)

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 460 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Most of the seventeen barrows lie on heathland N. of the village, five forming the Black Knoll Group (AC). Another barrow possibly existed at 81938295 (O.S. 1811). Some on Winfrith Down, perhaps including (32), were excavated by Durden but cannot now be identified (Durden Catalogue, 9, no. 110; 21, nos. 50–54).
(32) Bowl (?) (SY 88 SW; 80378317) on top of broad ridge. Diam. 42 ft., ht. 2 ft. Ploughed. There is now no trace of a second mound (on O.S. 1811) immediately to N.N.E.’

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F3 NJA 27-AUG-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0047-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13748.

<9> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2002, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13248.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455592 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 7 2023 3:30PM