Monument record MDO45213 - Possible Bronze Age round barrow, Tarrant Rawston

A sub-circular feature is visible to the east of Tarrant Monkton as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature may be a plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow. It lies south of a row of four similar features recorded in the NRHE as possible barrows or alternatively geological dolines. Interestingly, the parish boundary between Tarrant Monkton and Tarrant Rawston makes a short dogleg around the group of features, perhaps suggesting they were once more extant, and potentially raising the possibility for a Bronze Age barrow cemetery. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A sub-circular feature is visible to the east of Tarrant Monkton as a cropmark on aerial photographs [1, 2]. The feature may be a plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow. It lies south of a row of four similar features recorded in the NRHE as possible barrows or alternatively geological dolines. Interestingly, the parish boundary between Tarrant Monkton and Tarrant Rawston makes a short dogleg around the group of features, perhaps suggesting they were once more extant, and potentially raising the possibility for a Bronze Age barrow cemetery. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> John Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3306/2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19150.

<2> John Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3306/10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19149.

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Jan 4 2023 3:36PM