Monument record MDO3404 - Bowl barrow north east of Blagdon Barn, Winterbourne Steepleton

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. Recorded as an extant mound by RCHM, and noted as being much disturbed. Field investigations in 1980 reported the barrow as being severely mutilated, the south-western part of it having been robbed or destroyed so that it now forms a roughly crescent shape. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

SY 62348896. Bowl barrow on south-east slope, about 80 ft diameter and 5 ft high. Much damaged. <1> <3>

SY 62348895. A severely mutilated bowl barrow, the south-western part of it having been robbed or destroyed so that it now forms a roughly crescent shape. Original diameter 21.0m. Height 2.0m. No visible ditch. In arable, but not ploughed over. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

Original diameter 21.0m. Height 2.0m. No visible ditch. In arable, but not ploughed over {2}.

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <6-8>, measuring approximately 18 metres in diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 156 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 62348896) Tumulus (NR)

<3> 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.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 15-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 231 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 21.0m, ht. 2.0m. No visible ditch. In arable field but barrow grassed over. The perimeter had been steepened by ploughing particularly on the E and N. On the E it has been badly mutilated and dug away. 1/3/D

<6> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4277-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11870.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3095-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11865.

<8> 14-6-1988, NMR OS/88181 618 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11871.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 452354 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 1:18PM