Monument record MDO6629 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Weymouth

Probable Bronze Age barrow showing on aerial photographs as a crop mark ring ditch 14m in diameter. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Three round barrows: 'B' Bowl (67218572)98 yds. S.S.W. of 'A'. Ploughed almost flat. <1> <3>

'B' SY 67208571 Bowl barrow of diameter 22.0m (approximately) and height 0.2m. No visible ditch. 'A' resurveyed and 'B' surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

An RCHME level 3 air photographic interpretation project (Event UID 932322) was carried out on this monument in October 1993. The changes noted were as follows: 'B' SY 67218572 This barrow appears only as a vague central mound with no evidence for a ditch.
The archive produced by this project (Collection UID 932274) is held by the RCHME. <6>

Probable Bronze Age barrow showing on aerial photographs <8> as a crop mark ring ditch 14m in diameter. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 91 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 67268580) 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, 456 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(R.8) RIDGEWAY HILL GROUP (SY 68 NE). Twenty-one barrows, about 300 yds. S.E. of the E. end of Group R.7, strung irregularly along the broad Ridgeway top here running over and between two rises defined by 500 ft. ring contours. The W. part of the group is in Weymouth, the E. in Bincombe, amongst Ancient Field Group (7). Most of the barrows have been damaged by ploughing and excavation: eleven, opened in the 19th century cannot now be identified, but three of Warne's excavations can probably be located (Weymouth (412–14); see also Archaeologia xxx (1844), 333, nos. 13–15). … (417) Bowl (?) (67218572) 98 yds. S.S.W. of (416). Ploughed almost flat. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-FEB-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, 455 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 22.0m x ht. 0.2m. Ploughed down in ley pasture. Visible as a faint rise. 7/6/E

<6> Crutchley, Simon, RCHME: A354 Dorchester to Weymouth Project, 01-OCT-1993 (Unpublished document). SDO20404.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> Royal Air Force, 24-JAN-1959, RAF F12/58/267 0058-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11800.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452159 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 7:01PM