Monument record MDO1969 - Barrow, Piddletrenthide

A mound identified as a barrow on Ordnance Survey maps. The site of the barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and earthworks on lidar imagery; it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

SY 68849988. A ditchless and slightly elongated grass-covered mound, 10.5m diameter in the north east - south west direction and 8.5m diameter in the north west - south east direction with a height of 0.7m on the north east and 1.5m on the south west. The mound, which has a slight hollow in the centre, appears to be a bowl barrow. <1>

An oval mound (SY 68849990) 40ft long south west - north east, and 23ft wide, with a flat top 8ft by 6ft indented by a swallow hole is about 4 1/2ft high above the surface of the 'Celtic' field (see SY 69 NE 3) whose north west bank skirts it. The mound is unlike any usual barrow or `pillow-mound' and there is no sign of ploughing immediately beside it. <2>

SY 68849989: ploughing has reduced this feature to a mound, 16.0m by 10.6m, and 0.2m high, discernible only on its south and west sides. Revised at 1-2500 on MSD. <4>

The site of the barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and earthworks on lidar imagery; it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <6-7>

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 11-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 325 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1975 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 68849988) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 08-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452832 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 30-MAY-1974, OS/74088 V 291 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21069.

Record last edited

Nov 7 2024 7:44PM