Monument record MDO45196 - Bronze Age round barrow, Tarrant Monkton

A sub-circular ring ditch is visible to the east of Tarrant Monkton as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature is approximately 25m in diameter and is considered likely to be the outer ditch around a plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is centred at ST 9516 0805 and is defined by a single ring ditch which encloses a circular area measuring 20m in diameter, with no visible entrances.

The size and shape of the enclosure suggest that it could be the plough levelled remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, several other examples of which are situated along the lower contours immediately east of the River Tarrant (eg ST 90 NW 149; ST 90 NE 60 / UIDs: 1479020; 1479027). There is no sign of any barrow mound or other internal feature such as a funerary deposit. <1> <2>


A sub-circular ring ditch is visible to the east of Tarrant Monkton as a cropmark on aerial photographs <2>. The feature is approximately 25m in diameter and is considered likely to be the outer ditch around a plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<2> John Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3306/9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18885.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1479024 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 30 2023 11:46AM