Monument record MDO3176 - Double Bowl barrow on Shorn Hill, Winterborne St Martin

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

Round barrows on Shorn Hill. A bell, a double bowl and a bowl lie in a close-packed North-South straight line on top of a broad spur about 500 yds North of Bronkham Hill.

'B' Double bowl (62998724) immediately adjacent on North of 'A' (MDO3175). Elongated and hour-glass shaped, with North part 58 ft in diam and 6 ft high and South part 51 ft in diam and 5 1/2 ft high. North end cut into by a pond. <1> <3>

'B'. SY 62988724. Double bowl barrow, with the two mounds linked by a low ridge. The north mound is 20.0m. In diameter and 2.4m. High, cut into on its north side by a pond; the south mound 16.0m. In diameter and 1.8m. High. No visible ditch. All the barrows are grass-covered. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow on Shorn Hill, one of a group of three barrows situated in this area (MDO3175-7), lieing in a close-packed North-South straight line on top of a broad spur about 500 yds North of Bronkham Hill.

Later field investigations record it as two mounds linked by a low ridge. The north mound is 20.0m. In diameter and 2.4m. High, cut into on its north side by a pond; the south mound 16.0m. In diameter and 1.8m. High. No visible ditch. <5>

Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs <6-9>, measuring approximately 20 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 153, 166 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(Centred at SY 62998724) 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, 468 (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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 297 (Index). SDO12304.

The N mound is 20.0m in diameter and 2.4m high. The other mound is 16.0m in diameter and 1.8m high. The two mounds are situated in a field that is rarely ploughed and is under closely grazed grass. 1/2/A

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1063-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11906.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<9> 14-6-1988, NMR OS/88184 647-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11954.

<10> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452445 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 10:45AM