Monument record MDO3047 - Bowl Barrow on Came Down, Winterborne Came

Ploughed down barrow in ley pasture. Visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark ring ditch 22m in diameter with a central bank. Digitally plotted during South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY 69818703. A bowl barrow on a col between two combes. Diameter about 58 feet, ploughed almost flat (No mention of the adjacent mound shown on OS 6" 1963 at SY 69818701. <1-2>

SY 69808702. A stony mound 15.0m. In diameter and 0.3m. In height, probably a very much ploughed-out bowl barrow. No visible ditch. No trace of any other mound in the immediate vicinity. (Two mounds; published as Tumuli). Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <3>

Possible bowl barrow, 58ft. In diam and ploughed almost flat. {1} Ploughed down barrow in ley pasture. Visible on aerial photographs {2} as a cropmark ring ditch 20m in diameter with a central bank. Digitally plotted during South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 149 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 465 (Monograph). SDO150.

<2.1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 69818703) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 11-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3.1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1958 (Map). SDO10373.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 544 (Index). SDO12304.

Ploughed down in ley pasture. Visible as a faint swelling. 7/6/E

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> 21-SEP-1998, NMR SY6987/18 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11835.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451962 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 13 2023 4:31PM