Monument record MDO44458 - Probable Bronze Age barrow, Langton Long Blandford

A sub-circular ring ditch is visible as a cropmark to the north of Langton Long Blandford on aerial photographs. The feature is considered likely to be the outer ditch of a Bronze Age bowl barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is recorded as cropmarks on 2015 Historic England oblique aerial photographs. It is visible as a ring ditch with a diameter of about 15m. It is also recorded on 2009 Google Earth vertical aerial photographs. It is centred at ST 9003 0672. <1-2>

A sub-circular ring ditch is visible as a cropmark to the north of Langton Long Blandford on aerial photographs <3-4>. The feature is just under 19m in diameter, the ditch being just under 1.5m wide. It is considered likely to be the outer ditch of a Bronze Age bowl barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, 29559_014-029 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19236.

<2> Google Earth, 2009, Google Earth 2009, ACCESSED 14-DEC-2018 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15393.

<3> John Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3304/24 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18605.

<4> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, HEA 29559/019 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18606.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1622666 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2023 2:55PM