Monument record MWX3891 - Ditched bowl barrow, Worgret Heath Group

Ditched bowl barrow located at the end of a spur. Its diameter is 38 ft, height is 5.5 ft and it has a ditch 6.5 ft wide and up to 1 ft deep.

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

‘Nineteen barrows are scattered irregularly over the parish, all on Tertiary Beds and mostly in heathland. Six, together with three now in Wareham Lady St. Mary, form a group (B) on Worgret Heath … (B) Worgret Heath Group (SY 98 NW), nine barrows, including Wareham Lady St. Mary (82–4) of which (83) is a possible bell. On relatively high ground around the 100 ft. contour, though (31) is below it to the E. One barrow in this area, excavated in c. 1830 by Pennie and later destroyed, contained at least twenty-four Middle or Late Bronze Age urns, some holding cremations. Only one survives, in D.C.M. (Gentleman's Magazine (1838), pt. i, 303; Hutchins I, 108). … Wareham Lady St. Mary: (82) Bowl (90238727) 155 yds. S.E. of (34) near edge of slope falling steeply N. Diam. about 50 ft., ht. 5 ft.’

1978, List of ancient monuments in England: Southern England, p59 (Monograph). SWX1558.

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