Monument record MDO2208 - Barrow, Laycock Dairy Farm, Puddletown

'B' SY 70689497. A mound, ? a ploughed-down barrow diameter approximately 20.0m., height 1.2m. on the south side. No visible ditch. Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <2>

Barrow `A' no longer visible on the ground. Not recommended for scheduling. <3>

Probable site of a Bronze Age barrow, visible as a very faint cropmark on aerial photographs <4>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 231 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(38) Barrow ? (70689497), 300 yds. E.N.E. of (37), is incorporated in 'Celtic' fields. A lynchet runs up to it on either side. Diam. 69 ft., ht. 2½ ft.'

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 07-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, MPPA, 13-Apr-1999 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<4> 1972, DCC 212-0106-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10659.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455070 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 27 2023 3:14PM