Monument record MDO3295 - Winterbourne Poor Lot: ditched triple bowl barrow, Poor Lot Group

Possible site of a ditched triple bowl barrow at Winterbourne Poor Lot. A possible long barrow with later modifications on steeply sloping ground on the north side of the South Winterbourne valley, commanding views across the Poor Lot barrow cemetery towards Black Down and the Long Bredy bank barrow. The site comprises a rectangular mound with three round mounds on its top. The rectangular mound, oriented NW/SE, is 45m long, 20m and 3m high. Three round mounds, probably Bronze Age barrows, occupy its top.

[A - SY 59319098 B - SY 59219085 C - SY 59149083] B - Triple tumulus. Hachures bad - needs revision. All now grass and obsolete. <2> B. Three confluent bowl barrows each 15 paces diameter & 5 ft high. <3> B. Three confluent ditchless and grass covered bowl barrows, each with an approx diameter of 14.0m, and a height of 1.4m from the N and 2.2m from the S. A lynchet runs from the N. to the W. barrow. <4> Possible site of a possible ditched triple bowl barrow at Winterbourne Poor Lot. A feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs which may be a barrow, a field lynchet or disturbance associated with chalk quarrying. <11> A possible long barrow with later modifications forms part of the Poor Lot barrow cemetery. The site, previously recorded as part of SY 59 SE 57, lies at ST 5920 9085, on steeply sloping ground on the north side of the South Winterbourne valley, commanding views across the Poor Lot barrow cemetery towards Black Down and the Long Bredy bank barrow. The site comprises a rectangular mound with three round mounds on its top. The rectangular mound, oriented NW/SE, is 45m long, 20m and 3m high. Three round mounds occupy its top. The mound on the NW end is 6m in diameter and 1m high, that in the centre is 10m in diameter and 1m high, the mound on the SE end is 12m in diameter and 1m high. A slight sub-rectangular hollow on the NE side of the rectangular mound, 15m long, 7m wide and 0.5m deep, marks the remains of a ploughed over ditch. A later field system has utilised the mound which forms part of the corner of a field some 50m wide. The site has been interpreted as a triple barrow <5> but it could equally be a long barrow with three small round barrows constructed on the top of the long barrow mound: ploughing has made interpretation difficult. <7> The site was surveyed using differential GPS at a scale of 1: 1000 as part of a survey of the long barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway carried out by English Heritage and the Ridgeway Survey Group. <8>

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