Monument record MDO42876 - Bronze Age barrow, Grimstone Down, Stratton

A Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

One of a group of round barrows on Grimstone Down: Barrow 'C' - SY 64309540. A bowl barrow, 35 feet in diameter and between 2 1/2 feet and 3 feet high. <1>

Barrow 'C' - SY 64309540 one of six grass covered bowl barrows varying from 6.5 to 16 metres in diameter and 0.7 to 2 metres high. <2>

"SY 642958. Group of four mound barrows on Grimstone Down". Scheduled. <5>

The bowl barrow is as described by Authority (4) though the barrow is now scrub covered. It is 9.6 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high.
Barrow revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

A Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton <7-8>. The feature comprises a very low earthwork mound approximately 10.5m in diameter and is part of a barrow cemetery comprising eight barrows. It is recorded as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 229 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(15) BOWL BARROWS, on Grimstone Down, are eight in number. … (e), 390 yards S.W. of (a), is 35 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high.'

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 27-JAN-1955 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(Centred SY 645955) Tumuli (NR) (twice) Tumulus (NR (Seven mounds shown)

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 69 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 2689-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16863.

<8> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive, ORD01/02 (Index). SDO14738.

Archaeological photographs. NAR Photograph Cataloguing Project

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F32/7 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROWS AT STRATTON. EARTHWORK FROM THE WEST.

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F32/8 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROWS AT STRATTON. EARTHWORK FROM WEST.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1457328 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2024 6:53AM