Monument record MDO3323 - Bowl barrow on Lankham Eweleaze, Winterbourne Abbas

'B' Ploughed over; a scatter of flint around but the mound is 10.0m in diameter and 0.8m high. <2>

'B' is a ditchless bowl barrow with a heavy scatter of flint. 'A' is probably similar. <3>

'B' - (SY 61669148). Bowl barrow 25 ft diameter and 2 ft high on a slight south-west slope. <4-5>

'B'. SY 61669147. Bowl barrow, diameter 14.0 metres, height 0.3 metres. No visible ditch. Both barrows are ploughed-down stony mounds. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. <7-9>

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

('A') - SY 61529162 'B' - SY 61669147) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 24-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 464 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(52) BOWL (SY 69 SW; 61669148) 200 yds. S.E. of (51) on slight S.E. slope. Diam. 25 ft., ht. 2 ft.'

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> 1972, Hunting 2024/172 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12474.

<8> 1972, DCC 212/0034 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11164.

<9> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 017-019 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11163.

<10> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453662 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 15 2024 4:15PM