Monument record MDO5029 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Rawston

One of three closely spaced Bronze Age bowl barrow on Keyneston Down, Tarrant Rawston, north of Ashley Wood. In 1972 the RCHME reported that this monument had a diameter of 20 feet, with a mound standing some 2 feet high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The barrow is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph dated 1982 and as an earthwork on current lidar imagery. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

'B' ST 92660551. A mound orientated NW to SE is 17.0m long and 6.0m wide, being 1.0m high on the S and 0.5m high on the N. Now moss and bush covered. If it was ever a barrow, which seems unlikely, it has been severly damaged. <1>

'B' ST 92660552. Bowl barrow 20 ft in diameter and 2 ft high. <3>

These barrows 'A' and 'B' and mound 'C' are now described as having been destroyed by ploughing. <5>

The barrow is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph dated 1982 and as an earthwork on current lidar imagery <6-7>. The feature is approximately 7m in diameter, with rather an uneven profile and poor edge definition. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 26-MAR-54 (Unpublished document).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

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 135 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 105 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(26) Bowl (92660552), immediately N.E. of (25). Diam. 20 ft., ht. 2 ft.'

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 92640551 ST 92650552) Tumuli (NR)

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, Small scale revision July 1998 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 213 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18484.

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209401 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2023 1:48PM