More information : ('A' - SY 66508938; 'B' - SY 66708928; 'C' - SY 6658920; 'D' - SY
66788927) Tumuli (NR) (1)
'A' A bowl barrow 33 paces in diameter 3.5 ft high. Excavated by E
Cunnington. Nothing found
'B' & 'D' Two bell barrows. 'B' The largest bell barrow in Dorset and probably in Wessex. The mound is 150 ft diam, 18 ft height surroundedby berm 20 ft wide and a ditch 35 ft wide and 3 ft deep. An intrusive Ro inhumation in a sarcophagus was found near the top. Cunningtons No17.
'D' The mound is 74 ft diam and 6 ft high surrounded by a berm 9 ft
wide and a vague ditch 15 ft wide and 6" deep.
'C' A small elliptical earthwork 30 x 35 paces with a gap in the
east. Perhaps with pond barrow affinities.
'E' SY 66788905. Probably a small bowl barrow. (1)
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.
'B'. A grass covered bell barrow; diameter of the mound 63.0m,
including a berm 7.0m wide. The height of the barrow is 5.0m, and the surrounding ditch is 8.0m wide and 0.8m deep.
'C'. A grass covered horse-shoe shaped earthwork with the opening at
the E end. It consists of a spread bank approximately 9.0m wide and
0.6m high from the outside and 0.4m high from the inside. There is no visible outer ditch. Diameter N-S 27.0m; E-W 31.0m.
'D'. A grass covered bell barrow; diameter of the mound 30.0m,
including a berm 4.0m wide. The ditch is very mutilated and
unsurveyable.
'E'. A poorly shaped mound; grass covered but on the edge of an
arable field. Diameter 11.0m, height 0.4m. Possibly a bowl barrow,
but it lies against and on the W side of the ditch of the N-S
earthwork and is perhaps mutilated by the earthwork; or it may be
nothing more than a part of the earthwork. Possible barrow only.
(4)
In the West C has two rather angular corners and in the East there is
no indication that the bank was ever completed. The interior level isabove the exterior. All these features are alien to the pond barrow
seen in this part of Dorset but classification accepted from authority2. (5)
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.
Winterborne Monkton:
'B' (5) Bell, possible (665538924), 110 yards SSE of last.
Diameter about 75 ft with berm about 15 ft wide and ditch
10 ft to 12 ft wide; on E, ditch almost touches SW end of
ditch of long barrow (4). Ploughed flat, visible as soil-
mark.
'C' (6) Bell (66698928) 160 yards E of (5). Diameter about 130
ft, height 21 ft, with sloping berm about 20 ft wide. Ditch
about 37 ft wide and 2-3.5 feet deep. A stone cist containing
an inhumation, probably Roman, with head of E was found in
top of mound (DCC 14 Aug 1962)
'D' (7) Bell (66778927) 90 yards E of (6). Diameter about 76 ft,
height 5.5 ft. Berm about 9 ft wide and ditch 15 ft wide.
'E' (SY 66788905). Probable small bowl barrow (7) not traceable
(6). (6 - 8)
'A' SY 66508937. (?) Bowl barrow, under plough. Diameter 42.0m,
height 0.7m. No visible ditch.
'B' Ploughed out.
'C' SY 66698928. Bell barrow under grass. Height 7.0m, overall
diameter 76.0m, diameter of the mound 56.0m. Berm 5.0m wide. On the
NE side the ditch appears to have been destroyed and a 'false ditch'
created by modern ploughing.
'D' SY 66778927. Bell barrow in arable. Diameter 32.0m, height 2.0m. Berm and ditch ploughed out.
'E' Ploughed out.
A, C and D re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (9)
A and D no longer extant. (10)
SY 667893. Group of round barrows N of Maiden Castle. Scheduled No
132. (Includes barrows 'C' and 'D').
SY 656890, SY 665894. Two round barrows on Clandon Farm, Scheduled No335 (Includes barrow 'A'). (11 - 13)
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