Monument record MDO3171 - Bowl barrow in the Rew Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A bowl barrow is recorded as an extant earthwork by the RCHM, described as being irregular and having been ploughed, but still measuring a height of 5ft {1}.

Four round barrows, probably bowl barrows, on top of spur running north-east from Black Down. 'D' (63248887) 490 yds north-east of 'C'. Irregular and ploughed, but ht still 5 ft. <1> <3>

'D' SY 63238887. Diameter 33.0m., height 2.2m. No visible ditch. A well-preserved bowl barrow, in arable but not ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

It is also visible as an earthwork and a cropmark on aerial photographs <7-8> appearing as a mound surrounded by an outer ditch, measuring approximately 15 metres in diameter. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 152 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred at SY 62998872) Tumuli (NR) TUMULUS (NR) (twice)

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

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 236 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 33.0m and ht. 2.2m. The mound is ploughed over and the whole field is planted in turnips. Mound reduced and spread by ploughing. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4275-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11888.

<8> 4-8-1995, NMR SY6388/7 (15344/13) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11892.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452357 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 3:03PM