Monument record MDO43812 - Possible Bronze Age round barrow, Hyde Hill Plantation, Tarrant Launceston

A possible Bronze Age barrow within the former Hyde Hill Plantation, Tarrant Launceston, is visible as an almost complete circular annular cropmark c 17m in diameter on an aerial photograph dated 1988. Became apparent once the woodland has been removed and the area converted to arable. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, additional to those initially recorded as the Hyde Hill Plantation cemetery group (see ST 91 SE 61). The site is centred at ST 9493 1061 and comprises an incomplete ring ditch which is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1988, once the woodland has been removed and the area converted to arable. The ring ditch measures 15.5m in diameter and has a short break to the south-east, although this may be caused by the tramlines of the modern ploughing pattern. <2>

Other round barrows in the cemetery are recorded as ST 91 SE 193 to 204, 233, 234, 236 and ST 91 SW 116.

A possible Bronze Age barrow within the former Hyde Hill Plantation, Tarrant Launceston, is visible as an almost complete circular annular cropmark c 17m in diameter on an aerial photograph dated 1988 <1>. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 24-APR-1988, OS/88055 V 146 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18048.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 24-APR-1988, NMR OS/88055 188-189, NMR OS/88055 188-189 24-APR-1988 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18378.

<3> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number: MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1480726 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 31 2022 4:26PM