Monument record MDO42478 - Round barrow c310 metres SSW of 'Littlefield Cottage', Tarrant Hinton

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark and as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is defined by a light coloured circular macula which is partially enclosed to the north by an incomplete ring ditch. The site is probably the plough levelled remains of the chalk mound of the barrow. The barrow mound measures 23m in diameter and probably continues beneath the extant field wall which divides the soilmark. Total diameter circa 27m. There is no sign of any internal feature such as a funerary deposit.

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark and a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is centred at ST 9335 1049 and is defined by a light coloured circular macula which is partially enclosed to the north by an incomplete ring ditch. The site is probably the plough levelled remains of the chalk mound of a Bronze Age round barrow, several of which are known in this area. The barrow mound measures 23m in diameter and probably continues beneath the extant field wall which divides the soilmark. Part of the surrounding ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1969. There is no sign of any internal feature such as a funerary deposit. <1, 2>

Plough-levelled round barrow visible as a circular annular cropmark with an estimated diameter of c 27 metres on aerial photographs dated 2017 and 2018 <4, 5>. No mound material or associated features could be discerned. The feature is also visible as a circular soilmark c 26m in diameter on an aerial photograph dated 1982 <2> and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 30-JUL-1969, NMR OS/69378 144, NMR OS/69378 144 30-JUL-1969 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18458.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 184, NMR OS/82203 184-185 13-SEP-1982 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18046.

<3> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number: MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<4> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

<5> Google Earth, 2018, Google Earth 2018 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16663.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1481221 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 3 2023 3:43PM