Monument record MDO3208 - Bowl barrow in the Rew group, Winterborne St Martin

Mound, possible barrow, ploughed almost flat. <1>

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <4>. One of a group of 6 bowl barrows located at Rew.

A bowl barrow at Rew, listed by Grinsell as Winterborne St Martin 2a and by RCHME as Winterborne St Martin 108. Part of a barrow cemetery (see SY 69 SW 49 and associated monuments), the barrow was recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1981 as an earthwork mound measuring 17 metres in diameter and surviving to a height of 0.4 metres. This barrow was originally recorded as part of SY 69 SW 49. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 151 (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, 470 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘REW GROUP (SY 69 SW). Five, possibly seven barrows, including one probable disc barrow, on summit of hill in the extreme N.W. of the parish. Two were probably excavated by Sydenham: his no. 1 contained two primary contracted inhumations and a cremation at bottom of grave beneath a flint cairn. In the cairn was an extended child inhumation with small vessel (in D.C.M.), and at the top was an inurned cremation. On S. of the mound was a cremation in a biconical urn with remains probably of a necklace consisting of cylindrical bone bead, faience quoit-bead, faience star-bead and cowrie shell. Nearby was a fourth inurned cremation, and a fifth cremation lay near the surface with a fragmentary urn. In the top of mound was extended child inhumation (Archaeologia XXX (1844), 329–31; C.T.D., tovp, no. 70; Abercromby II, 42; Ant. J. XIII (1933), 448; Butler and Smith (1956), 35). A barrow nearby contained a cremation and an extended inhumation (C.T.D., tovp, no. 71). … (108) Mound, possible bowl (63659029) 180 yds. N.N.E. of (107). Ploughed almost flat.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 251 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 17.0m and Ht. 0.4m. No visible ditch. The barrow is situated in a regularly ploughed field which is in ley pasture. 7/5/D

<4> 14-FEB-2005, NMR SY 6390/5 (23792/06) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11141.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1267870 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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