Monument record MDO303 - Bowl barrow, one of the West Hill Group, Bincombe

This barrow had an unknown(?) diameter and a height of 2 feet. On arable, 1953. Much spread. <2>

The West Hill Group of round barrows consist of: (J) Bowl (?) (70528475) 50 yds. NE of (H). Almost ploughed out. <3>

'J' - SY 70538475. Ploughed over. Diameter 22.0m approximately; height 1.0m. None of the barrows has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Bronze Age barrow, visible as a low earthworks and soilmarks on aerial photographs. One of a group of barrows on West Hill. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.<7-8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1890 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 703846) Tumuli (NR) (eight shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 440 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 27-AUG-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 619 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 22.0m, ht. 1.0m. Ploughed down in ley pasture. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> 15-MAY-1996, NMR OS/96662 8888-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11748.

<8> 15-FEB-2005, NMR SY 7084/12 (23814/03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11749.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:25PM