Monument record MDO3304 - Bowl barrow, one of the Three Barrow Clump Group, Winterbourne Abbas

Possible ditched bowl barrow situated in woodland on the top of a ridge, one of a group of ten barrows. In 1970 this monument was reported as 60 feet in diameter with a mound 5½ feet high.

Not mentioned by Grinsell. <2>

A spread and partly tree covered bowl barrow; diameter 18.0m height 1.8m. There is no visible ditch. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY 59489003] TUMULUS [OE]

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 463 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘THREE BARROW CLUMP GROUP (SY 59 SE). Ten barrows, including one, possibly two, bells and one pond barrow, on the top and N. slope of a spur on S. side of S. Winterborne valley. Most have been damaged.
(33) Ditched bowl (?) (59489003) on ridge top in woodland and crossed by parish boundary with Little Bredy. Diam. about 60 ft., ht. about 5½ ft.’

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 124 (Index). SDO12304.

Ditched bowl in managed woodland; hazel saplings grow on its N side. Three mature beech trees grow on its southern perimeter. A ditch is visible on the N side (0.2m deep and 3.0m wide), faint on the east side, and not visible on the south or west. Ditch probably obscured by woodland tracks which meet at a junction SW of the mound. There are no animal burrows visible in the mound. Several large flints and two lumps of limestone are visible on the crest of the mound. 1/2/B

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451265 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 15 2024 4:06PM