Monument record MDO3239 - Bowl barrow on Hog Hill Winterborne St Martin

Bowl, 39ft. in diam and 4ft. high, has been destroyed. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

SY 66278878. Bowl barrow on north end of Hog Hill, now destroyed. Bowl, 39ft. in diam and 4ft. high, has been destroyed. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. <1> <3>

The 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.

(SY 66268878) Tumulus (NR) (Site of) (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 471 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 420 (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace of this barrow which is situated in a field of ley pasture. 7/7/E

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3089-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11804.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451878 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 21 2025 5:19PM