| Summary : A bell barrow, part of a cluster of monuments located a short distance north of Maiden Castle (see associated monument records). The barrow is listed by RCHME as Winterborne Monkton 5 and by Grinsell as Winterborne Monkton 3. It is located just southwest of the southern end of the long barrow SY 68 NE 93, its ditch almost touching that of the long barrow. In 1980 the Ordnance Survey recorded that it had been ploughed flat. In 1955, they had recorded it as a "grass covered bell barrow, diameter of mound 30.0 metres, including a berm 4.0 metres wide. The ditch is very mutilated and unsurveyable". RCHME had previously measured the diameter of the mound at 75 feet, surrounded by a berm 15 feet wide and a ditch up to 12 feet wide. It had already been ploughed flat by then. More recently, the latest amendment to the scheduling details records the site as a cropmark, and describes the barrow as having a central mound 3.5 metres in diameter, surrounded by a berm 4.5 metres wide and an outer ditch 3.5 metres wide. This barrow was formerly recorded as part of SY 68 NE 26. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information [note that there was periodic confusion among Ordnance Survey field staff over the identification of the various barrows in the group. This barrow was at times confused with the bell barrow SY 68 NE 156]. |