Monument record MDO43810 - Bronze Age round barrow, southwest of Manor Farm, Tarrant Hinton

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark on aerial photographs. Measures 17m in diameter and is partially enclosed to the north by a narrow incomplete ring ditch. The site is probably the plough levelled remains of the chalk mound of a Bronze Age round barrow. There is no sign of any internal feature such as a funerary deposit.

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark on aerial photographs. The site is centred at ST 9346 1043 and is suggested by a light coloured circular macula which measures 17m in diameter and is partially enclosed to the north by a narrow 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. There is no sign of any internal feature such as a funerary deposit. <1>

A probable Bronze Age barrow approximately 525m southeast of Manor Farm, Tarrant Hinton is visible as a circular soilmark c 16m in diameter on an aerial photograph dated 1982 <1>. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 184, NMR OS/82203 184-185 13-SEP-1982 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18046.

<2> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number: MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1481220 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 5 2022 3:39PM