Monument record MDO275 - Bowl barrow, Bincombe

A bowl barrow 14m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark ring ditch with an internal bank and central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 20 paces in diameter and 1 foot in height, and on arable. <1>

Four barrows south of the Ridgeway: 'C'. Bowl barrow 20 paces diameter by 1ft. High. <3>

'C' SY 68498569. Bowl barrow of diameter 18.0m., and height 0.4m. No visible ditch. All barrows in arable. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A bowl barrow 14m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs <7> as a cropmark ring ditch with an internal bank and central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 90 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

('B' - SY 68428569; 'C' - SY 68508569; 'D' - SY 68538568) 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, 439 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(42) Bowl (?) (68508569). Ploughed flat.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 491 (Index). SDO12304.

18.0m diameter, ht. 0.4m. Ploughed down and in ley pasture. 1/5/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3289-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11856.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452099 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 12:05PM