Monument record MDO3141 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger linear cemetery extending along the South Dorset Ridgeway. Field investigations record it as an extant mound.

Bowl barrow around 45 feet in diameter with a mound about 2 feet high. Disturbed. {1-2}

Grass-covered bowl barrow; diameter 14.0m., height 0.9m. {3}

<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.

‘(41) Bowl (62648692) 35 yds. S.E. of (40). Diam. 45 ft., ht. 2 ft. Disturbed.’

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 280 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 14.0m and ht. 0.9m. Grass and gorse covered. 1/3/C

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Record last edited

Jan 23 2025 1:25PM