Monument record MDO2895 - Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, West Stafford

Two Bronze Age bowl barrows visible as earthworks on Whitcombe Hill. The one to the south west has a diameter of 28 metres and a height of 3 metres. It has a flat top with a diameter of 4 metres. The barrow is thickly overgrown and bisected by a parish boundary bank. The second barrow to the north east has been ploughed-down. It has an approximate diameter of 20 metres and a maximum height of 1 metre.

'A'. Tree and bush covered bowl barrow with no visible surrounding ditch and no positive sign of excavation. Diameter
24.5m. North to south and 26.0m. East to west. Height 4.0m. Taken from the south west. <2>

'A'. Bowl barrow 13 feet high by 26 paces diameter north to south and 28 paces diameter east to west. <3>

'A' - SY 71818865. A circular bowl barrow, thickly overgrown, bisected by a parish boundary bank. Its diameter is 30.0m.,
height 4.3m., with a flat top of diameter 4.0m. Both published surveys (1:2500) revised. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. <5>

Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 571 (Index). SDO12304.

'Not visited by the TWA during their Ridgeway survey.'

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 71818864) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 19-AUG-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 140 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 16-NOV-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Air Force, 11-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2491 3008-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10859.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453988 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 3:23PM