Monument record MDO40116 - Bronze Age round barrow, Horton Inn, Horton

A ring ditch is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1989 to the north of Horton Inn. It is considered to be the site of a levelled Bronze Age round barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A rapid examination of air photography suggests the presence of three further possible round barrow sites, of Prehistoric or Roman date, viisible as ring ditch cropmarks at: E - SU 0176 0871. <1>

A ring ditch 16m across is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1989 to the north of Horton Inn <2>. It is considered to be the site of a levelled Bronze Age round barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. It is one of a dispersed group of barrows in the vicinity.

<1> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project, 05-FEB-1993 (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<1.1> National Monuments Record, NMR 4491: 29-32 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20296.

<2> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/60-3 (NMR SU0108/14-17) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15691.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213060 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 15 2023 10:59AM