Monument record MDO3409 - Bowl barrow, one of the North Hill Barrow Group, Winterbourne Steepleton

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is part of a group of barrows located on the summit of North Hill.

Two round barrows on the summit of North Hill … 'B' - SY 63028998. Bowl barrow, 82ft diameter and 7ft high. <2-3>

B: SY 63028997. Bowl barrow, diameter 22.0m., height 3.5m. No visible ditch. Both barrows are in arable but unploughed. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is part of a group of barrows located on the summit of North Hill. <7>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(A-SY 62959000; B-SY 63028997) Tumulus (NR) twice

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 155-6 (Monograph). SDO132.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 10-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 244 (Index). SDO12304.

Situated in a field in apparently established grass when visited although in 1980 it appears to have been arable (OS). The barrow was unploughed and in good condition apart from an area on its W edge which appears to have been spread by ploughing and an area on its N side which has been eroded by cattle. 22.0m diameter and 3.5m high. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<7> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4071-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11140.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452253 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 26 2023 1:48PM