Monument record MDO43215 - Bronze Age or earlier barrow,Wraxall

An oval mound with an outer ditch is visible as an earthwork on a 1947 aerial photograph taken on Daws Hill to the southwest of Wraxall. The feature may be a barrow of Neolithic or Bronze Age date, of which three are recorded on Daws Hill. It was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project. Summary from record MDO43735: Probable barrows on Daw's hill, including a ditched oval mound

Probable barrow at 600 feet OD on the North side of Daw's Hill, at ST 572004. It is oval in shape, 130 feet E-W by 100 feet being entirely surrounded by a ditch 20 feet wide. Two other barrrows lie to the South, one at a field junction. (1)

An oval mound with an outer ditch is visible as an earthwork on a 1947 aerial photograph taken on Daws Hill to the southwest of Wraxall <2>. The feature comprises an oval 25m by 16.3m mound encircled by a 4.5m wide outer ditch. It may be a barrow of Neolithic or Bronze Age date, of which three are recorded on Daws Hill (NRHE Hob UID 882560). The feature was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project. It is still visible on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (Wraxall file) (Unpublished document). SDO17948.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RP 3386-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16627.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3386 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17950.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 882560 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 10 2024 10:08AM