Monument record MDO270 - Bell barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Bincombe

Bronze Age bell barrow. In 1972 this monument was reported as 88 feet in diameter with a flat-topped mound 10½ feet above the berm, with an encircling ditch 23 feet wide and 2 feet deep. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 88 feet in diameter and 10½ feet high above the berm. The berm was 9 feet wide and the ditch 23 feet wide and 2 feet deep. <1>

Round Barrows: … 'B' Bell (67978572) 120 yds. E. of 'A'. Diam. of flat topped mound 88 ft., ht. above berm 10 1/2 ft. The berm is 9 ft. wide and 1 1/2 ft. above surrounding ground level within a ditch 23 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep. Much damaged. <1> <3>

'B' SY 67968571 Bell barrow of overall diameter 48.0m and height 3.4m. Berm 5.0m wide, and ditch 7.0m wide and 0.5m deep. Re-surveyed. at 1:2500 on MSD. See ground photographs. <4>

Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <7>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 162 (Monograph). SDO132.

'152. Fine and large with good berm and ditch. Measured by RCHM. Berm raised 1½ ft.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SY 67968572) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 438 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(37) Bell (67978572) 120 yds. E. of (36). Diam. of flat-topped mound 88 ft., ht. above berm 10½ ft. The berm is 9 ft. wide and 1½ ft. above surrounding ground level within a ditch 23 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep. Much damaged.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 479 (Index). SDO12304.

Bell Barrow - diameter 48.0m, height 3.4m. Berm 5.0m wide, and ditch 7.0m wide and 0.5m deep. Unploughed and in permanent pasture. Fence cutting W edge of ditch. 1/2/C

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1057-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11854.

<8> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB86/05029 (Index). SDO14738.

BINCOMBE 5A - ONE OF A GROUP OF THREE. Donor: UNKNOWN Copyright: UNKNOWN

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452093 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2023 4:37PM