Monument record MDO42880 - Possible Bronze Age barrow, Grimstone Down, Stratton

An irregular sub-circular banked feature is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs on Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature may be a Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, recorded at this location (NRHE Hob UID 453197). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A bowl barrow, 38ft diameter and 3ft high is situated near the north edge of Stratton parish, about 1/4 mile north-west of Jackman's Cross. (2,3)

A grass-covered bowl barrow, 13 metres in diameter and 1.8 metres high with hollow centre is situated in the angle of a 'Celtic' field.The ground surface is irregular on the east side of the barrow. (4)

Ploughed out.

Deleted from 1:2500 MSD. (5)

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

(SY 64559623) Tumulus (NR)

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

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

‘(12) BOWL BARROW, near the N. edge of the parish, ¼ m. N.W. of Jackman’s Cross (2), is 38 ft. in diam. and 3 ft. high.’

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 21-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<6> National Monuments Record, 02-FEB-71, SY6495/10 (NMR285/283) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16864.

<7> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453197 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 19 2024 4:43PM