Monument record MDO4390 - Round Barrow, Milborne St Andrew

A circular cropmark around 18 metres in diameter visible on aerial photographs taken in 1979. Interpreted as a ring ditch, and probably the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

SY 80689812: cropmark of ditch of probable barrow visible on air photographs. It measures some 18.0 metres in diameter. <1>

By-passed: crops. <2>

The probable site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs taken in 1976 <4>. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, Papworth, MDJ TWA 3 January 1986 (Index). SDO134.

‘Site lies in a field regularly ploughed – newly ploughed when visited.’

<1> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 21-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<1.1> 27-SEP-79, OS 79/140/109-110 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19602.

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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

<4> J R Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3305/9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20759.

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Jul 19 2024 10:22AM