Monument record MDO5026 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Keyneston

Bronze Age bowl barrow at Ashley Wood. In 1972 the RCHME reported that this monument has a diameter of approximately 28 feet, with a mound standing some 3 feet high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The feature is visible as a sub-oval mound on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

'A' ST 92280525. Bowl barrow 17.0m diameter by 1.8m high, with unsurveyable traces of a surrounding ditch. It is tree-covered and appears to have been excavated. <1>

Two bowl barrows in Ashley Wood : 'A' 28 ft diameter by 3 ft high. 'B' 20 ft diameter by 2 ft high. <2>

The feature is visible as a sub-oval mound on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project [5].

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 26-NOV-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 105 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(23) Bowl (92280525), within and near the W. side of Ashley Wood, lies 310 ft. above O.E. Diam. 28 ft., ht. 3 ft.’

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 92280525) Tumuli (NR)

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209404 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 2:44PM