Monument record MDO3179 - Bowl barrow in the Great Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of two barrows on Great Hill. Also visible as a circular earthwork mound on aerial photographs.

'A'. Bowl barrow on Great Hill, the next spur to east of Shorn Hill. Diam 74ft, ht 9ft. Disturbed, with Ancient Field Group (SY 68 NW 37). <3>

'A' SY 63908703. Bowl barrow, diameter 24.0m., height 2.4m., in good condition. No visible ditch.
Neither barrow has been ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of two barrows (MDO3179-80) and part of a larger barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Also visible as a circular earthwork mound on aerial photographs <6-9>, measuring approximately 22.2 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

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

('A' - SY 63918703; 'B' - SY 64088721) 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, 469 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(79) Bowl (?) (SY 68 NW; 63918704) on Great Hill, the next spur to E. of Shorn Hill. Diam. 74 ft., ht. 9 ft. Disturbed, within Ancient Field Group (6).'

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 340 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 24.0m and ht. 2.4m. In good condition. Slight evidence for basal plough damage. Field not ploughed within the owner's memory. 1/2/C

<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> 6-12-2006, NMR SY6386/26 (24499/01) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11939.

<9> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM70) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11940.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<11> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452439 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 10:31AM