Monument record MDO282 - Bowl barrow, one of the Bincombe Down Group, Bincombe

Bowl barrow, recorded in 1983 as having a diameter of 14 metres and a surviving height of 0.2 metre. No ditch was visible and the monument was ploughed in ley pasture. Its mound was of chalk and flint.

This barrow was 22 paces in diameter and 1 foot in height.Found by LVG, 8.xi.53 <1>

Bowl, 65ft. In diam and 1ft. High. Ploughed. <3>

Three round barrows north of Brincombe Hill: (A) Bowl (?) ( 68738493) 325 yds. North-North-West of (SY 68 SE 34). Diameter about 65 ft., height 1ft. Ploughed.

Three probable bowl barrows: 'A' SY 68728493. Diameter 14.0m., height 0.2m. No visible ditch. All in arable - at present under pasture. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

SY 68738502) Tumulus (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.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 68728493) SY 68748496) Tumuli (NR)

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 05-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 514 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 14.0m, ht. 0.2m. No visible ditch. Ploughed over in ley pasture. Constructed of chalk and flint. 7/6/E

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452122 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 22 2023 11:25AM