More information : (`A` - SY 59988976; `B` - SY 60008977) Tumuli (NR)
(`C` - SY 60038979; `D` - SY 60188993; `E` - SY 60478995)
Tumulus (NR) (three times).
(`F` - SY 60439004) Long Barrow (NR). (1)
Group of barrows at Longlands, including one possible bell,
four in a rough alignment south west-north east along spine of
spur, with possible long barrow at north east end. The three
south west barrows are just above the 500 ft contour and the
others above 400 ft. All damaged. Near foot of steep slope to
north immediately south of the main road three further barrows
at 60449020, 60519025 and 60559018 are shown on OS (1811) but
there is now no sign of them.
`A` Bowl in Dry Wood, now only irregular rise about 9 ins high.
`B` Bowl 25 yds north east of `A`, also in Dry Wood.
Diam 48 ft, ht 3 1/2 ft.
`C` Ditched bowl 40 yds north east of `B`. Mound about 65 ft
diam and 1 1/2 ft high, within oval ditch about 150 ft
(north west-south east) by 90 ft (VAP CPE/UK 1934, 5098). Almost
ploughed out.
`D` Bowl 220 yds north east to `C`. Diam 52 ft, ht 14 ft though
base steepened by ploughing.
`E` Bell 307 yds east north east of `D`. Diam about 94 ft, ht
5 ft, with ditch about 105 ft in diam, separated from mound by
narrow berm (VAP CPE/UK 1934, 5092).
`F` Oval barrow, long barrow (?) is sited about 450 ft above
OD on a gentle north east facing slope just below the crest of
a broad ridge. It has been much ploughed and is now only about1 1/2
ft high and measures 70 ft (east-west) by 40 ft. Under
plough it showed only earth and flints as in the surrounding
field. (2-3)
`A` SY 59978976. Tree covered bowl barrow; diameter 10.0m.,
height 0.6m. No visible ditch.
`B` SY 60008977. Tree covered bowl barrow, diameter 17.5m,
height., 1.1m. Mutilated on the west side. No visible ditch.
`C` SY 60038979. Ploughed-down bowl barrow, diameter
approximately 20.0m., height 0.6m. Vague and unsurveyable traces
of a ditch.
`D` SY 60188992. Elongated bowl barrow, 18.0m. by 14.5m. height
3.5m. In arable but not ploughed over. No visible remains of a
ditch.
`E` SY 60468995. Ploughed-over barrow, diameter 33.0m. height
1.2m. No real evidence of a berm could be recognised and
Grinsell (3) had reservations about it. A ditch is visible as a
soil-mark on air photograph (a) but not on the ground.
`F` SY 60439004, An elongated mound, 24.0m. by 18.0m
approximately; height 1.2m. on downhill (north) side. No
visible ditch. Probably ploughed-down long barrow but the
remains are now too amorphous to afford any real guide to
classification.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD (4)
The ploughed over remains of a long barrow lie at SY 6044 9004 on the southern side of the South Winterbourne valley. The remains comprise a low, sub-rectangular mound, oriented W/E and 24m long, 17m wide and 0.6m high. Long Lands was enclosed in 1810 (Winterbourne Abbas Enclosure Award and Map, DRO Inclosure 69) and air photographs show that it has been under arable cultivation from the 1940s to the present day (CPE UK 1934 17 JAN 1947 fr 5097; OS 8400347/304 21 APR 1984) (6).
The site was surveyed using differential GPS at a scale of 1: 200 as part of a survey of the long barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway carried out by English Heritage and the Ridgeway Survey Group (7)
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