Monument record MDO5269 - Bowl barrow on west end of Muston Down, Winterborne Kingston

A bowl barrow, part of a group set on a large north-south spur which is part of Muston Down. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 38 feet in diameter with a mound two feet high. The bowl barrow mound and outer ring ditch are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1953 and 1965 and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

Group of three bowl barrows of chalky construction, and one possible barrow. All are now ditchless, and under the plough.

D (ST 86560059) Diameter 15.0m, height 0.7m. During ploughing in 1953 a hole about 4 1/2ft deep and 1 foot in diameter appeared on the top of the mound (possibly the collapse of a cist).

In 1940-41 a skeleton was ploughed out from one of the mounds, probably 'D', by C F Carter. Many stones have been removed from this barrow group (a). <2>

Group of round barrows: D-Bowl barrow 38ft diameter by 2ft high. <4>

One of a group of four Bronze Age barrows on the west end of Muston Down, Winterborne Kingston. The barrow mound is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1980 <5> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

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

(Centred ST 86550055) Tumuli (NR) (four shown)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 20/11/1954 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Mr Gray, Mr Gray (farm worker) Winterborne Kingston (Verbal communication). SDO20270.

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

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 305 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Five barrows (32–6) lie on a large spur running N.-S. which forms the W. part of Muston Down. Monument (32) is at 350 ft. O.D. on the spine of the spur; the others are further N. and just W. of the spur top, at over 400 ft. O.D.; they lie in an area of fragmentary 'Celtic' field remains (Group (66)), and have been heavily ploughed. … (36) Bowl (86560059) is 25 yds. E.N.E. of (35). Diam. 38 ft., ht. 2 ft.’

<5> National Monuments Record, 10-APR-1980, NMR 1744/26-32 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19477.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205678 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 10 2023 11:00AM