Monument record MDO4981 - Bowl barrow, one of the Tarrant Hinton Down Group, Tarrant Hinton

(Centred ST 94951215) Tumuli (NR). <1>

Tarrant Hinton Down Group comprises five barrows (A-E) all now flattened by cultivation. They lie at 260 ft. above O.D. on the gentle N.slope of Tarrant Hinton Down.

(A) Bowl (94931213);former diam. 48 ft.ht. under 1 ft. [Note: This is MDO4977].
(B) Bowl (94951214); former diam. 55 ft.,ht. 2 ft. [Note: This is MDO4978].
(C) Bowl (94971216); former diam. 40 ft.,ht. 1 ft. [Note: This is MDO4979].
(D) Bowl (94961216); former diam. 33 ft.,ht. 1 ft. [Note: This is MDO4980].
(E) Bowl (94941216); former diam. 21 ft., ht. under 1 ft. [Note: This is MDO4981]. <2>

Four of the Bronze Age barrows seen as low mounds in the early 1970s (as described above) have been recorded as cropmarks of ring ditches on 2015 Historic England oblique aerial photographs. Two have diameters of about 20m and the other two measure about 10m and 15m across. 2014 Google Earth vertical aerial photographs record four spreads of mound material suggesting that the barrows may still have some height. The same photographs show that the barrows sit within a prehistoric or Roman field system visible as soilmarks. <4-5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 101 (Monograph). SDO99.

'Tarrant Hinton Down Group comprises five barrows (46-50), all now flattened by cultivation. They lie at 260 ft. above O.D. on the gentle N. slope of Tarrant Hinton Down … (50) Bowl (94941216); former diam. 21 ft., ht. under 1 ft.'

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey (Index). SDO147.

Visible as a faint rise in a field regularly ploughed and newly ploughed and planted in grass when visited. Lies approx 40m NW of the imposing earthwork of Chettle Long Barrow and about 20m W of the parish hedge boundary. Severely reduced and spread by ploughing.

<4> Google Earth, 2014, Google Earth 2014, 15-APR-2014. ACCESSED 18-DEC-2018 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15450.

<5> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, 29564_001-011 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19208.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210232 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 26 2023 4:55PM