Monument record MDO3238 - Bowl barrow in the Lanceborough group, Winterborne St Martin

Possible bowl, 3ft. high, opened by Cunnington who found nothing. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'A' A bowl barrow 33 paces in diameter 3.5 ft high. Excavated by E Cunnington. Nothing found. <1> <3> In a low barrow in the common fields [Fordington Fields] about 1.5 miles SW of Dorchester, are MBA biconical urn containing burnt bones was found in a cist cut into the native chalk [probably applies to one of these barrows] (2 - 3) 'A'. A grass covered ditchless bowl barrow; diameter 34.0m, height 0.8m. <4> Lanceborough Group. Four barrows including two bells and a possible bell, with a long barrow (SY 68 NE 93) and a horseshoe-shaped enclosure (SY 68 NE 94) lie on a local downland crest about 300 ft above OD some 700 yards N of the W end of the Maiden Castle 'long mound' (SY 68 NE 90). The adjacent open field furlong was called Lanceborough or Great Barrow Furlong (Tithe Map 1844), a name probably referring to 'C' the largest bell barrow in the area. All the barrows have been damaged, mostly by ploughing. Winterborne St Martin: 'A' (137) Bowl (?) (66508937). Diameter uncertain, height 3 ft. Opened by Cunnington who found nothing. <7> 'A' SY 66508937. (?) Bowl barrow, under plough. Diameter 42.0m, height 0.7m. No visible ditch. A, C and D re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <8> A and D no longer extant. <9> Visible as a cropmark, 48m in diameter and comprising outer ditch, internal bank and central pit, on aerial photographs <12>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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Dec 8 2023 3:13PM