Monument record MDO1283 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: bowl barrow

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. In 1952 this barrow was described as being around 45 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high and with possible traces of a ditch encircling this and the adjacent barrow.

Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow Group. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. {1-2}

One of a group of at least twenty round barrows between the 400 and 500 foot contours on the eastern part of Black Down. This barrow is 45 feet in diameter and 4 feet high.

Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<1> 01-SEP-2004, NMR SY 5990/46-49 (23602/33-6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11154.

<2> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 129 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(7) BARROWS etc. (Plate 106), between the 400 ft. and 500 ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down and on the E. side of the parish, are twenty in number: . . .(c ), 155 yards E.N.E. of (b), is 45 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high.’

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 69 (Index). SDO12304.

Dimensions as above. Now included within DOE Guardianship site. Under established grass. 1/2/A

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2024 4:11PM