Monument record MDO6619 - Barrow, one of the Ridge Hill Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow 25m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark bank with a central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Pond barrow at SY 66688633; ploughed. The depression is 45 feet across by about 9 inches deep, with a surrounding bank about 15 feet wide by 9 inches high. (1-2)

SY 66688633. Pond barrow in arable. Diameter 16.0m depth 0.5m the bank has been ploughed out. Re surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (3)

A bowl barrow 25m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs {6} as a cropmark bank with a central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Flaxman, E W, 1996, A Radar Survey of Pond Barrows (Unpublished document). SDO16401.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 172 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 468 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(R.7) RIDGE HILL GROUP (SY 68 NW, NE). Thirty-eight barrows including one bell, four probable bells, one very large bell-disc barrow and one pond barrow, many of them having survived intact in an area extensively covered with 'Celtic' fields (see Ancient Field Group (6), and Fig. p. 626). Ridge Hill continues the Ridgeway to the E. for the next 1¾ miles to the great Ridgeway bell-disc barrow (67). The Ridgeway here is domed on top, and the barrows lie in an irregular line, mostly on the highest ground. The group includes Portesham (41–2), Weymouth (396–406) and Bincombe (13–21). … (406) Pond barrow (66688633) 220 yds. E.S.E. of (405). Diam. of depression 45 ft., depth about 9 ins. Surrounding bank about 15 ft. wide and 9 ins. high. Ploughed. '

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 406 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 16.0m, depth 0.5m. The bank has been ploughed out (possible slight remains on S). Situated in regularly ploughed ley pasture. 7/4/D

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1061-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11826.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452190 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 3 2023 11:26AM