Monument record MDO42236 - Bronze Age round barrow, Wynford Eagle

The site of a 'Tumulus' is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map to the east of Wynford Wood, Wynford Eagle. A low mound, 15m across, is visible at this location on lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

The site of a 'Tumulus' is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map to the east of Wynford Wood, Wynford Eagle. <1>

A bowl barrow; diameter 16 paces, height 2ft. <2>

Possibly the remains of a barrow, now almost ploughed out. <3>

Only faint unsurveyable traces of this bowl barrow are visible on the ground, which is arable, but at present grass covered. <4>

A low mound, 15m across, is visible at this location on lidar imagery <5> and was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

[SY 57789657] TUMULUS [OE]

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 270 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450637 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2022 11:15AM