Monument record MDO3180 - Bowl barrow in the Great Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

'B'. Bowl barrow on crest of north east slope of Great Hill 270 yds north east of 'A'. Diam 55 ft, ht 5 ft. <1> <3>

'B' SY 64088721. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0m., height 2.0m., flat top of 5.0m. diameter. No visible ditch.

Neither barrow has been ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age 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 circular earthwork mound on aerial photographs <6-10>, measuring approximately 22 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.

'(80) Bowl (SY 68 NW; 64088720) on crest of N.E. slope of Great Hill 270 yds. N.E. of (79). Diam. 55 ft.., ht. 5 ft.'

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document).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 341 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 18.0m, ht. 1.0m. It has a flat top 5.0m in diameter. Damage limited to 2 areas of cattle erosion. The field appears rarely to have been ploughed and then not to any great depth. 1/2/B

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

<9> 6-12-2006, NMR SY6386/26 (24499/01) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11939.

<10> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM70) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11940.

<11> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<12> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452439 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 10:27AM