Monument record MDO45291 - Possible Bronze Age round barrow, Abbeycroft Down,Tarrant Rushton

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs, on Abbeycroft Down, Tarrant Rushton. It forms part of a group of features recorded under NRHE Hob UID 1403297.The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A ring ditch and other features are visible as cropmarks on air photographs taken April 15th 2002. There appear to be faint ditches passing either side of the ring ditch, while other features in the vicinity may represent field boundaries or enclosures. <1> <3>

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs, on Abbeycroft Down, Tarrant Rushton <1,2>. The feature is visible as an approximately 10m in diameter mound with an approximately 1.5m wide outer ditch on an aerial photograph dated 1946 <1> and later as a ring ditch cropmark on an aerial photograph dated 2002 <2>. It forms part of a group of features recorded under NRHE Hob UID 1403297. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4071 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18567.

<2> National Monuments Record, 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/01 (ST9505/0007) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19207.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1403297 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 30 2023 12:28PM