Monument record MDO304 - Bowl barrow, one of the West Hill Group, Bincombe

'A' and 'B' are both bowl barrows with no trace of ditch. A pit to the west of barrow 'B(appears to be a 'swallow hole'. <1>

This barrow was 28 paces in diameter and 4.5 feet in height. <2>

'A' - SY 70588482. Bowl barrow. 75ft. diameter by 4 1/2 ft. high. Grinsell's (Bincombe No 47). <2> <4>

'A' - SY 70598481. Ploughed over. Diameter 30.0m. approximately, height 1.0m. No visible ditch. ... 'A' and 'B' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Bronze Age barrow, visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs. One of a group of barrows on West Hill. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <8-10>

<1> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 29-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

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

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 70588482, 'B' - SY 70728481) Tumuli (NR)

<4> 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.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 620 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 30.0m, ht. 1.0m. No visible ditch. Ploughed down in ley pasture. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<8> 15-FEB-2005, NMR SY 7084/11 (23814/02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11750.

<9> 15-FEB-2005, NMR SY 7084/12 (23814/03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11749.

<10> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4285-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11645.

<11> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454372 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 12:26PM