Monument record MDO1284 - 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 50 feet in diameter with a mound about 4½ 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}

Barrow, between the 400ft. and 500ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down. One of twenty. 50ft. in diam and 4.5ft. high. There are possible traces of a continuous ditch on the N. side.

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: . . . (d), immediately E. of (c ), is 50 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high; there are possible traces of a continuous ditch on the N. side, common to this and (c );’

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 70 (Index). SDO12304.

Dimensions as above. The barrow is now within the Guardianship area. 1/2/A

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Dec 22 2016 2:51PM