Monument record MDO250 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Bincombe

Bowl barrow, 30ft. diam. Has been ploughed out. Visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs {1}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

This barrow was 11 paces in diameter and half a foot in height. <2>

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: 'E' Bowl (66508660) 55 yds. E S E of 'D'. Diam. about 30 ft. Ploughed out. <4>

E No visible remains. All these barrows are in arable and have been ploughed. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

Visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 40-47 (Serial). SDO25.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 92 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 665865) Tumuli (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 468 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 402 (Index). SDO12304.

Visible as a vague swelling from a distance but no soil differentiation on site. Cultivated. 1/6/E

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> 07-AUG-1995, NMR SY6686/7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11844.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452011 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 12:49PM