Monument record MDO3186 - Bowl barrow in the Eweleaze Barn group, Winterborne St Martin

(Centred SY 648874) Tumuli [NR] (three times). (1)

Ten barrows including a pound barrow ('F') and a quadruple bell barrow ('K'), form an irregular linear cemetery orientated roughly North West to South East on top of the second spur east of Shorn Hill. 'K' is unique in England. 'A', 'C', 'D' and 'F' were excavated by St George Gray and Prideaux in 1902.

'E' Bowl (?) (64688743) on West Slope 100 yds West South West of 'D'. Small, ploughed almost flat. (2,3)

'E'. No trace remains. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D.

(SY64828728; 64828720; 64818712) The cropmarks of three probable barrows on Crawford air photograph, could not be traced in arable field. (4)

Site of a bowl barrow, part of the Eweleaze Barn barrow group. Grinsell measured the mound at 7 paces diameter and 1 foot high, while RCHME merely described it as "small, ploughed almost flat". In 1980, the Ordnance Survey found no surviving surface trace. This barrow was originally recorded as part of SY 68 NW 56. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information. <1-2>

A possible Early Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a linear barrow cemetery comprising bowl barrows, a pond barrow, and a quadruple bell barrow (MDO3183-91).

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452448 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 06-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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

<2> 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.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 346 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace. Cultivated land. 7/7/E

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1268552 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 27 2024 5:06PM