Monument record MDO48921 - Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, Forston Higher Farm, Charminster

A poorly defined sub-circular feature in a field to the north of Forston Higher Farm, Charminster, is visible as a faint partial ring ditch cropmark on aerial photographs and as a sub-circular mound earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature could possibly be a Bronze Age bowl barrow but, being within a later prehistoric field system, it could alternatively be part of a ploughed out field boundary of potentially Iron Age/Roman origin. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A poorly defined sub-circular feature in a field to the north of Forston Higher Farm, Charminster, is visible as a faint partial ring ditch cropmark on aerial photographs and as a sub-circular mound earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature could possibly be a Bronze Age bowl barrow but, being within a later prehistoric field system, it could alternatively be part of a ploughed out field boundary of potentially Iron Age/Roman origin. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

<1> John Boyden, 22-JUN-1976, JRB 3086/4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21019.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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