Monument record MDO8314 - Bowl barrow, Winfrith Newburgh

A small mound is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1970. It has been suggested by the NMR to be the potential site of a Bronze Age round barrow.

A grass covered but flinty mound exists almost at the summit of a hill. The diameter of the mound is 11.5m., and its height 0.7m., except for the S. quadrant, which merges into the hillside. There is no trace of a berm or a ditch, and no sign of mutilation. This is possibly a bowl barrow. No surface finds were made were made in its vicinity. Site surveyed at SY 80718355. <1>

The area is currently under crops, but no evidence of a barrow is visible from a distance. <2>

A small mound is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 <6>. It has been suggested by the NMR to be the potential site of a Bronze Age round barrow. The feature is no longer visible on the most recent Google Earth imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-AUG-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 27-AUG-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 55 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey (Index). SDO147.

<5> Keen, L and Carreck, A ed, 1987 , Historic landscape of Weld: the Weld Estate Dorset. (Monograph). SWX8134.

<6> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0048-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13786.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455644 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2023 12:31PM