Monument record MDO3262 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

A stony mound, possibly the site of a Bronze Age barrow. Recorded by field investigators as an extant mound. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

A stony mound on the highest point of ground below the main ridge of Bronkham Hill. Diameter 24.0m. approximately and height 0.2 to 0.7m. In arable. No visible ditch. Almost certainly a ploughed-down bowl barrow. Discovered during field investigation. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

Approximately 30 metres south-east is a stony spread 11.0m. in diameter which may be the site of a ploughed down barrow. <1>

Also visible as an earthwork mound on aerial photographs <2-3>, measuring approximately 19.2 metres in diameter. An outer ditch is also visible as a cropark, 2 meters in width and seperated from the mound by a berm, suggesting it could instead be a bell barrow. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 25-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3293-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11893.

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

Measurements and description as above. On DCC 25” map as SAM52q but it was not on the revision map of 1969. Situated in a regularly ploughed field of ley pasture.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452545 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 9:49AM