Monument record MDO2226 - Round barrow, Puddletown

A bowl barrow, one of a scattered group along a north-south ridge. This monument can be seen as a soil mark on aerial photographs. The site of this barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs; It was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

The site of this barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs; It was digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <2>

National Record of the Historic Environment, 454737 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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

Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 30-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 24-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<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.

'Four barrows (48-51) lie in the N. of the parish, scattered along a N.-S. ridge about 300 ft. O.D., among the much ploughed remains of ‘Celtic’ fields (Group (45)). An air photograph (Camb. Univ. Colln. AGT 18) suggests the possibility of two more barrows, one immediately S.S.E. of (50) …'

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-1971, RAF/39/3829 V 18 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20973.

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Oct 17 2024 7:03PM