Monument record MDO1296 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: disc barrow

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

Barrow, between 400ft. and 500ft. contours on the E. part of Black Down. One of twenty. Disc barrow of unusual type, consists of a circular mound 38ft. in diam and 3.5ft. wide, surrounded by a bank 19ft. wide and 82ft. in diam overall. The outer scarp only remianig on the S.W. and on the S.E. being cut into by the ditch of barrow (8a) in Little Bredy (RCHM).

<1> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 129 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 63 (Index). SDO12304.

14.5m wide and 0.5m high only the reduced and spread mound is visible with no trace of the bank and ditch. There is a flint concentration on the mound which is under grass. 1/5/D

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Nov 4 2014 11:50AM