Monument record MDO8305 - Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, Winfrith Newburgh

A bowl barrow on a small steep knoll. In 1970 this monument was reported as around 30 feet in diameter with a mound 2½ feet high, encircled by a ditch.

A bowl barrow with a ditch. No details given. <2>

This barrow has a diameter of 9.0 metres and a height of 0.7 metres. There is a ditch in the East and North-East quadrants only. It is 1.5 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep. A heather covered bowl barrow. <3>

SY 806875. Round barrows on Whitcombe Hill. <7>

A bowl barrow 9.0 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres high. Around the east and north-east there is a ditch 1.3 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep with an outer bank 1.5 metres wide and 0.2 metres high. There is no evidence that it ever continued around the north-west and west, and it abruptly ends at the hillslope on its southern quadrant. See ground photograph. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <8>

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

(SY 80488752) Tumulus (NR)

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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 25-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 147 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 461 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(AC) BLACK KNOLL GROUP (SY 88 NW). Five bowl barrows on knoll rising from undulating heathland to just over 200 ft. above O.D. Much disturbed. … (47) Ditched bowl (?) (SY 88 NW; 80488752) on Whitcombe Hill, a small but steep-sided knoll. Diam. 30 ft., ht. 2½ ft.’

<6> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 80488752) Tumulus (NR) (site of)

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 72 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 06-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455257 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 11 2024 5:01PM