Monument record MDO5337 - Bowl barrow, Winterborne Whitechurch

A bowl barrow. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about one foot high. The antiquarian William Shipp investigated a barrow on Whitechurch Down in 1864, and it is thought likely to have been this barrow. Shipp found a flint cairn over a circular cist containing a cremation, and four later inhumation burials within the mound.

(Centred ST 861013) " Two barrows shown on 1" 1st Edn 1811 and visible on air photographs" (RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3122-3 Jan 1947). <1> Two grass-covered and now ditchless bowl barrows. Each is approximately 11.0m in diameter and 0.3m high. <2> A-ST 86100133. Ditched bowl barrow, 13 paces diameter and 1 foot high. B-ST 86120135. Ditched bowl barrow, 10 paces diameter and 1 foot high. <3> A-ST 86080133. A much ploughed bowl barrow, 40ft diameter and 1 foot high. An air photograph <4.1-4.2> shows the ditch as a dark ring. B-ST 86100134. A bowl barrow, in similar condition to A, measures 30ft diameter and 1 foot high. B is possibly the barrow opened in 1864 by William Shipp on 'Whitechurch Down' (now East Down) close to Combs Ditch (see S0 80 SE 49). <4> RCHM also state that "Barrows shown on Tithe Map of 1839 at ST 85700176 and ST 86120135 (see barrow B siting) have been destroyed". The latter grid reference is probably in error as Grinsell, also quoting the same source, positions the barrows at ST 85700176 and ST 85800173 (see ST 80 SE 40). The OS 1" 1811 siting of these barrows agrees with Grinsell. <5>

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