Monument record MDO20913 - Mount Pleasant: bowl barrow

A Bronze Age round barrow recorded as a ring ditch on aerial photographs. It is the central ring ditch in a group of three located south-southeast of the Mount Pleasant henge enclosure. All three were first photographed in the 1990s. It is part of a wider linear barrow cemetery located to the south-east of Mount Pleasant.

Ring ditch, approximately 14m in diameter, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. 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 100m south-east of Mount Pleasant henge (MDO2890). <1>

A ring ditch located south-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 'H'.

Located at SY 71208971, it measures circa 13 metres in maximum internal diameter. It forms part of a group of three ring ditches, all of a broadly similar size, and forming a more-or-less linear arrangement to the SSE of the henge. 'H' is the middle one of the three. There is a gap of just 3.5 metres between the ring ditch of 'H' and that of 'G' (SY 78 NW 98) to the north. Similarly, ring ditch 'I' (SY 78 NW 100) is just 4 metres to the southeast of 'H'. All three of these ring ditches were first photographed by Francesca Radcliffe in 1996. <1-4>

<1> Radcliffe, F M, Oblique aerial photographs, FR 198/28 05-AUG-1996 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13178.

<2> Barber, M, 2005, Mount Pleasant 2005 plot (Cartographic materials). SDO10978.

<3> Barber, M, 2008, Mount Pleasant Draft Archive Report 2008 (Unpublished document). SDO10981.

<4> Barber, Martyn, 2014, Mount Pleasant, Dorset. A Survey of the Neolithic 'Henge Enclosure' and Associated Features (Monograph). SDO14409.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1494210 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 6:59PM