Monument record MDO2163 - Barrow, Poxwell

SY 74728395. A possible barrow. Noted by RCHM (No dimensions given). <2>

SY 74728395. A ploughed mound, 2ft high, and possibly a barrow situated at 430ft. OD on an almost level site just above south slope. <3>

SY 74728399. A circular mound, diameter 15.0m and height 0.5m, no visible ditch; almost certainly a barrow but so ploughed down that its type cannot be determined. Now under pasture. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

The probable site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age barrow, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <1>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4442-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11786.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 451 (Monograph). SDO149.

'(13) Mound, possible barrow (SY 78 SW; 74728395), 430 ft. above O.D. on almost level site just above S. slope. Height 2 ft. Ploughed.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 14-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454431 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 10 2021 3:29PM