Monument record MDO1958 - Saucer barrow, Piddletrenthide

A round barrow consisting of a small mound surrounded by a ditch and outer bank, and thought possibly to be a saucer barrow. The outer bank has been partly destroyed on the eastern side by a later woodland bank. In 1970 this monument was described as a mound 18 feet in diameter and about one foot high, surrounded by a ditch 4 feet wide, and outer bank 7 feet across and one foot high. The barrow mound is 4.5m across with an external ditch, it was digitally recorded from lidar imagery during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM Project.

A barrow group centred ST 730023 (See Table). <2-4>

C. ST 73000230. A saucer barrow; overall diameter 12.0m. The mound is 6.5m in diameter, and 0.4m high, with a ditch 1.2 m wide and 0.2m deep; the surrounding bank, destroyed in the southeast quadrant is 0.3m high, and 2.0m wide. The whole is tree covered, but otherwise well preserved.

Tumuli surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <5>

The barrow mound is 5m across with an external ditch, it was digitally recorded from lidar imagery during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM Project. (Lidar 2021 (7))

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2 (Map). SDO11594.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 221 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 221 (Monograph). SDO136.

(61) Saucer-barrow ? (73000230), 35 yds. N.N.E. of (60), is covered with trees; it consists of a small mound surrounded by a well-marked ditch and an outer bank; the latter has been destroyed on the E. side by an old copse bank. Diam. of mound 18 ft., ht. 1 ft. Ditch 4 ft. across and 6 ins. deep; bank 7 ft. across and 1 ft. high.

<4> Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 25-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Barrett, G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments GB, F2 GB 08-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202054 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Nov 11 2025 11:33AM