Monument record MDO3130 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs.

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger linear barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Ditched bowl barrow, 36ft. in diameter and 2ft. high, with a ditch 10ft. wide and 1ft. deep. Flat, slightly hollowed top {1-2}.

Later field investigations record it as having a diameter of 12.0m., height 1.0m and no visible ditch. {3}

Also visible as a low earthwork on aerial photographs {4-5}, measuring approximately 8 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452318 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (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, 466 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> 11-6-1978, NMR OS/78080 100-101 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11952.

<5> 12-5-2002, PGA SY6287 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11951.

<6> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 265 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 12.0m and ht. 0.8m. Hollow in the top 4.0m diameter and 0.1m deep. Situated in grassland. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 7:32PM