Monument record MDO3150 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a cluster of four round barrows, and part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway. Recorded as an extant mound by field investigators and also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. A ditched bowl barrow situated on a slight knoll with a steep drop to the north. Around 80 feet in diameter with a mound about 10 feet high, and an encircling ditch about 8 feet wide. The mound has been disturbed, possibly in the course of antiquarian investigation.

Four round barrows: 'A'. Ditched bowl on slight knoll with steep drop to North Diam 80 ft, ht 10 ft. Ditch about 8 ft wide. Disturbed. <1> <3>

'A' SY 63168664. Bowl barrow, with ditch visible on south-east and south-west only. Diameter of mound 23.0m., height 3.7m. Ditch 3.0m. wide and 0.3m. deep. The barrow is overgrown and crossed by a boundary fence, and mutilated on the east by a quarry. 'A' and 'B' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <7> measuring approximately 15.6 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 127, 155 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 63168665; 'B' - SY 63248664) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 467 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(50) Ditched bowl (63168665) on slight knoll with steep drop to N., 275 yds. E.S.E. of (49). Diam. 80 ft., ht. 10 ft. Ditch about 8 ft. wide. Disturbed.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 22-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 291 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl barrow with a ditch visible on the SE and SW sides only. Diameter 23.0m and ht. 3.7m. Ditch 3.0m wide and 0.3m deep. The barrow is overgrown and mutilated on the E by a quarry. Situated in heathland it is gorse covered and infested by badgers. 1/4/D

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452476 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 9 2024 4:55PM