Monument record MDO20907 - Bowl barrow on Frome Hill, West Stafford

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a ring ditch cropmark on aerial photographs. A Bronze Age round barrow recorded as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs. One of a cluster of ring ditches located to the southeast of the Mount Pleasant henge enclosures, although first identified in 2004 it was actually first photographed in 1948. It is circa 32 metres in diameter. It is part of a wider linear barrow cemetery located to the south-east of Mount Pleasant.

Ring ditch, approximately 34m in diameter, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs <1-3>. It is probably the site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow and appears to be part of a wider linear barrow cemetery aligned north-west - south-east, located approximatly 300m south-east of Mount Pleasant henge (MDO2890).

A ring ditch located southeast of the Mount Pleasant henge enclosure, one of several recorded for the first time during analysis of aerial photographs in 2004-5. Following the simple nomenclature used in the RCHME inventory and existing monument records, the barrow is designated 'C'.

Located at SY 71438977, it lies circa 17 metres northwest of 'B' (SY 78 NW 93/uid 1494065), this distance being that between the two ring ditches. It is circa 6.5 metres east of 'D' (SY 78 NW 95). It measures a maximum of 32 metres in internal diameter, which is around the same size as the ring ditch around barrow 'B'. Although first identified as a cropmark in 2004-5, it is in fact visible on RAF verticals taken in 1948. <1-6>

<1> 01-SEP-2004, NMR SY 7189/35 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10980.

<2> 15-FEB-2005, NMR SY 7189/45-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10979.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2491 3010-12 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10880.

<4> Barber, M, 2005, Mount Pleasant 2005 plot (Cartographic materials). SDO10978.

<5> Barber, M, 2008, Mount Pleasant Draft Archive Report 2008 (Unpublished document). SDO10981.

<6> Barber, Martyn, 2014, Mount Pleasant, Dorset. A Survey of the Neolithic 'Henge Enclosure' and Associated Features (Monograph). SDO14409.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1494100 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 6:59PM