Monument record MDO6627 - Bowl barrow, one of the Ridgeway Hill Group, Weymouth

A bowl barrow 31m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark ring ditch with an internal bank and central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Round barrows on Ridgeway Hill : 'G' Bowl (67078590) 70 yds. E. of 'E'. Diam. 67 ft., ht. 5 ft. Cut on W. by track on line of Roman road. <1> <3> Rim fragment of an enlarged food vessel, damaged by ploughing, were found by students of Weymouth College of Education while surveying the round barrow at SY67078590 (barrow G; Grinsells Bincombe 36) in November 1968, about 3m from the centre. An attempt to excavate the remainder of the vessel was unsuccessful as, together with the ashes, it had been scattered over several metres by the plough. The only identifiable bone fragment was the crown of a human molar. The sherds of the vessel are now in Dorset County Museum. The barrow "has a patchy surface showing many changes of colour" suggesting "its use either as a Late Bronze Age cremation cemetry, or extensive and haphazard excavation in more recent times". <4> 'G' SY 67068590. Bowl barrow in arable, truncated by a track and fence. Diameter 31.0m, height 1.8m. No visible ditch. 'A', 'C', 'D', 'E' and 'G' re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5> A bowl barrow 31m in diameter is visible on aerial photographs {1} as a cropmark ring ditch with an internal bank and central pit/ hollow. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <8>

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