Summary : A bell barrow, part of a cluster of monuments located just to the north of Maiden Castle (see associated monument records). The barrow is listed by Grinsell as Winterborne Monkton 1c and by RCHME as Winterborne Monkton 7. In 1980, the Ordnance Survey described it as a mound 32 metres in diameter and 2 metres high, the berm and ditch having been ploughed out. RCHME had earlier recorded a berm about 9 feet across and a ditch about 15 metres wide. Scheduled. This barrow was formerly described as part of SY 68 NE 26. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information. |