Monument record MDO2659 - Pillow Mound near Thorncombe Beacon, Symondsbury

Pillow mound with traces of a surrounding ditch. The site of the pillow mound is visible as low earthwork mound on aerial photographs taken in 1942. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 93 feet long, 16½ feet wide, and 1½ feet high.

Pillow Mound, near Thorncombe Beacon, with traces of a surrounding ditch. (1) The site of the pillow mound is visible as low earthwork mound (28m by 4m) on aerial photographs taken in 1942 (2). It was digitally plotted during the South West Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 239 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(27) BARROWS, near Thorncombe Beacon … 350 yards E.S.E. of the summit of the beacon is a mound, apparently a "pillow mound", approximately 93 ft. by 16½ ft. and 1½ ft. high with traces of a surrounding ditch.’

<2> Royal Air Force, 07-JUN-1942, RAF AC53 16-17 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12959.

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