Monument record MDO4919 - Round barrow, Tarrant Gunville

A mound on the parish boundary between Chettle and Tarrant Gunville. Noted by Martin Papworth during field work for the Dorset Barrow Survey in 1986, and interpreted as a probable Bronze Age round barrow.

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, Papworth, M D J, 23 January 1986 (Index). SDO134.

‘An earthwork seen during field work ahs the appearance of a round barrow. On the parish boundary between Chettle and Tarrant Gunville.10.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. It lies approx. 200m SE of Chettle long barrow. No visible ditch.
Visible as a faint selling crossed by a fence NW-SE, the earthwork only survives in width 1.0m because it has been destroyed by agricultural activity to NE and SW. A path lies immediately to NE and beyond it a field regularly ploughed. To SW lies an area of sparse hazel coppice being the S edge of Eastbury Park.’

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1989, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1988, 143 (Serial). SDO88.

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