Monument record MDO3325 - Bowl barrow, one of the Pound Hill Group, Winterbourne Abbas

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow visible a cropmarked ring ditch on aerial photographs. A small, circular ditch offset within this to the south-east suggests this may be a reused hengiform enclosure of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age origin. It forms part of a larger group of prehistoric burial/ritual monuments located across Pound Hill.

'C' A grass covered bowl barrow, diameter 25.0m, height 2.4m. Hollow in top. 'D' and 'E'. Two bowl barrows of average height 0.4m. Both are under the plough. <2>

Group of five barrows on Pound Hill: 'C' (Winterbourne Abbas No 54) SY 62329089. Bowl barrow 60ft diameter and 10 1/2ft high. Excavation hollow on top. <3> <5>

'C'. SY 62329088. Bowl barrow, 22.0 by 19.0 metres, and 3.8 metres high. 'B' and 'C' have not been ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow visible a cropmarked ring ditch on aerial photographs, approximately 25m diameter. A possible hengiform enclosure of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age origin (MDO21291) is visible as a small, circular ditch offset within this to the south-east. They may both be contemporary with one another or the result of separate phases of construction of the monument, such as the re-use or adoption of a Neolithic monument in the Bronze Age. It forms part of a larger group of prehistoric burial/ritual monuments located across Pound Hill. <9-11>

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

(Group Centred SY 62439083) Tumuli [NR] (five shown)

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-DEC-54 (Unpublished document).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

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

'B' to'E' - Centred SY 624908. Tumuli [NR] (four shown)

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 473 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(54) Bowl (62329089) 75 yds. N.N.E. of (53). Diam. 60 ft., ht. 10½ ft. Excavation hollow on top.’

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 239 (Index). SDO12304.

Dimensions as above. The mound is not ploughed over but the perimeter has been steepened by basal ploughing quite severely except on the north side. A number of badger setts penetrate the mound. The excavation hollow is 2.0m in diameter, 0.5m deep with a limestone block in the bottom. The barrow is situated in a field of regularly ploughed ley pasture and is grassed over. 1/4/D

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> 14-JUL-1948, CUCAP (BJ6) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11136.

<10> 14-FEB-2005, NMR SY 6290/9 (23794/02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11134.

<11> 04-AUG-1995, NMR SY 6290/6 (15344/17) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11133.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453632 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 10:59AM