Monument record MDO5257 - Bowl barrow north east of Elderton Clump, Winterborne Kingston

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was described as around 64 feet in diameter with a mound about 6½ feet high surrounded by a ditch. Damage to the mound suggests that it was subject to antiquarian investigation. The site of the barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A probable bowl barrow, but if a bell barrow, the berm is almost overspread by the mound. Diameter 24 paces, height 9ft. <2>

A bush covered barrow. 21.0 metres diameter, 2.5 metres high, surrounded by ditch average 5.0 metres wide, 0.4 metres deep. There is no positive sign of a berm. Hollow centred. <3>

SY 84669746. Ditched bowl barrow, 64ft diameter and 6 1/2ft high with ditch 10ft wide,situated on a steepening north slope which has been dug into in the past. <4>

SY 84649746: A ditched bowl barrow, in arable but not ploughed over. Diameter overall 31.0 metres, diameter of mound 19.0 metres. Ditch 6.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep. Height of mound 2.5 metres. The ditch is visible, except for a short length on the south-east. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site of the barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <7>

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

(SY 84659746) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 1954-11-16 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 303 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘These monuments lie in the N. and W. of the parish; most of them have been damaged, some severely so, by ploughing. No. (24) is an extension of the scatter of barrows on Bere Down, Bere Regis (Dorset II, p. 437). … (24) Bowl (84669746), on West Down, just below 300 ft. on a steepening N. slope, has been dug into in the past. Diam. 64 ft., ht. 6½ ft., width of ditch 10 ft.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 1981-05-13 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455990 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 11:32AM