Monument record MDO249 - Bowl barrow on Ridge Hill, Bincombe

Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of an extensive linear barrow cemetery running along the ridgeway. In 1972 this monument was reported as being around 50 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high. This barrow was opened in March 1884 by antiquarian Edward Cunnington, who found an inhumation burial in the form of a contracted skeleton with a food vessel, and a cremation burial near its feet. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Grinsell recorded this barrow as 18 paces in diameter and 1 foot in height. He interpreted Cunnington's finds as apparently a crouched primary adult male inhumation, secondary Late Bronze Age shouldered bucket urn protected by slabs near head, at feet was a cremation, all beneath a cairn. <2> Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill: 'D' Bowl (66468861).50 yds. N E of 'C'. Diam. about 50 ft., ht. 2 1/2 ft. Ploughed. Contained cairn of large stones covering primary (?) contracted male inhumation with a cremation near its feet and a bucket urn, now in D.C.M., near its head. <4> D SY 66468661. Bowl barrow, diameter 18.0m, height 0.3m. All these barrows are in arable and have been ploughed. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5> Visible as a cropmark ring ditch with a central pit on aerial photographs <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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Jan 15 2024 3:12PM