Monument record MDO8306 - Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, one of the Black Knoll Barrow Group, Winfrith Newburgh

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 30 feet in diameter with a mound 3 feet high. The mound is disturbed in the centre, perhaps as a result of antiquarian investigation.

A bowl barrow. No details given. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 8.0 metres and a height of 1.0 metres. There isno ditch. An East-West trench across the top of barrow is 0.7 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep. There were no surface finds. A heather covered bowl barrow. <3>

SY 806835. Round barrow on Whitcombe Hill. <5>

A bowl barrow, generally as described and measured by Authority (3). Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 80688746) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 25-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 461 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Black Knoll Group (SY 88 NW). Five bowl barrows on knoll rising from undulating heathland to just over 200 ft. above O.D. Much disturbed. … (48) Bowl (SY 88 NW; 80688747) at top of scarp falling from local plateau in heath. Diam. 30 ft., ht. 3 ft. Disturbed in centre.’

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 80678746) Tumulus (NR) (site of)

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2) (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 06-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455262 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 3:13PM