Monument record MDO44822 - Possible Bronze Age round barrow, Tarrant Launceston

A sub-circular soilmark is visible to the northwest of Tarrant Launceston on a 1982 aerial photograph. The faintest suggestion of an outer ring ditch on the south side of the feature is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is recorded as a possible Bronze Age barrow under NRHE Hob UID 1479215 and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A sub-circular soilmark is visible to the northwest of Tarrant Launceston on a 1982 aerial photograph <1>. The faintest suggestion of an outer ring ditch on the south side of the feature is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery <3>. The feature is recorded as a possible Bronze Age barrow under NRHE Hob UID 1479215 and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS 82203/151 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18867.

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 Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis (Unpublished document).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

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1479215 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2023 2:46PM