Monument record MDO42877 - Bronze Age barrow, Grimstone Down, Stratton

A low oval mound is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature may be that recorded as a possible Bronze Age round barrow (NHRE Hob UID 1457326). The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project. A barrow at this location is designated as a Scheduled Monument (103771).

A low oval mound is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton (1, 2). The feature is visible as a low indistinct mound of elongated oval form, approximately 13.4m long by 9m wide.

The feature may be that recorded as a possible Bronze Age round barrow (NHRE Hob UID 1457326), although the NRHE entry locates this slightly to the north at SY 64230 95390. A barrow at this location is designated as a Scheduled Monument (103771).

(NB This barrow was originally recorded as part of record HOB uid 453207 - SY 69 NW 43)

(Centred SY 645955) Tumuli (NR) (twice)
Tumulus (NR (Seven mounds shown). 1)

One of a group of round barrows on Grimstone Down:- Barrow 'A' - SY 64239539. (Not listed by RCHM or Grinsell see Authy 4). (Sited from settlement plan with SY 69 NW 38). (2-3)

Barrow 'A' - SY 64239539. A ditchless mound apparently undisturbed measuring 9 metres in diameter east-west by 5 metres north-south and 1 metre high at the west and merging into ground level on the east. (4)

The barrow is generally as described by Authority (4) . It now measures 10 metres by 6 metres and is 0.8 metres high, and is a possible barrow of simple elongated form.

Barrow revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (5)

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 2689-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16863.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 229 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 27-JAN-1955 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

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

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F32/8 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROWS AT STRATTON. EARTHWORK FROM WEST.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F32/7 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROWS AT STRATTON. EARTHWORK FROM THE WEST.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, ORD01/02 (Index). SDO14738.

Archaeological photographs NAR Photograph Cataloguing Project

<8> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<9> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1457326 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2024 6:49AM