Monument record MDO4822 - Possible round barrow, Stourpaine

Interpreted by the Ordnance Survey and by L V Grinsell as a Bronze Age round barrow, aerial photographs dated 2005 clearly indicate that this monument actually posesses a square ditch some 14 metres across, with sharply-angled corners. In 1955 there was a rise in ground level of some 0.3m at the site and a faint, unsurveyable remnant ditch. By 1986 ploughing had reduced the mound to a vestigial swelling. A circular mound 9m across is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 it is considered to be the site of a Bronze Age round barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water

Three mounds in the pasture field immediately east of Down End Farm seem to be barrows, and are confirmed by an air photograph.

'B' - ST 87540948. A bowl barrow, 12.5m. diameter and 0.3m high with unsurveyable traces of a ditch. <1>

A circular mound 9m across is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 [7]; it is considered to be the site of a Bronze Age round barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 31-DEC-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

‘Three mounds in the pasture field immediately east of Down End Farm seem to be barrows, and are confirmed by an air photograph (a). … 'B' - ST 87540948. A bowl barrow, 12.5m. diameter and 0.3m high with unsurveyable traces of a ditch.’

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 50 (Monograph). SWX1703.

'Down End Farm. 13 paces diameter, 1 ft high. OS Arch 31 Dec 1955: pasture.'

<3> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, DBS (Index). SDO134.

'A faint swelling at the grid reference is still visible. Ordnance Survey (Map/OS/1974/1:25000)record a field boundary aligned NW-SE crossing a trig. Station but the boundary has been removed, leaving the trig. Station as a marker in the field. The mound was 60 paces S of the trig. Station in a field heavily ploughed in the past. It was in stubble recently harrowed when visited.'

<4> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<5> Mudd, A, 1990, Stourpaine Landfill Site, Stourpaine, Dorset: Archaeological Assessment (Unpublished document). SDO14188.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205408 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4015 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18889.

Record last edited

Nov 24 2022 5:22PM