Monument record MDO30110 - Possible Bronze Age Barrow, Woolsbarrow, Bloxworth Heath

A mound is visible as an earthwork on 1947 RAF aerial photographs of Bloxworth Heath, located directly west of Woolsbarrow Iron Age hillfort (MDO7215). It is marked as a tumulus on the 1st Edition OS Map and it is possible this could be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. Alternatively it may be associated with later post medieval extractive activities in this area (MDO30103 & MDO30107).

A mound, approximately 14m x 21m, is visible as an earthwork on 1947 RAF aerial photographs of Bloxworth Heath (1), located directly west of Woolsbarrow Iron Age hillfort (MDO7215). It is marked as a tumulus on the 1st Edition OS Map (2) and it is possible this could be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. Alternatively it may be associated with later post medieval extractive activities in this area (MDO30103 & MDO30107). This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. It is still visible on the most recent aerial images available to the project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2056-57 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13175.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Dec 13 2013 3:50PM