Monument record MDO5046 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Launceston

A bowl barrow recorded as being 50 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, with a surrounding ditch. A hole has been dug into the top of the mound, possibly by an antiquarian. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Bowl barrow, 50 ft in diameter and 4 ft high, with a surrounding ditch. A hole has been dug in the centre of the mound. <1>

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project [4, 5].

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 106 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(19) Bowl (92800903), S. of Settlement (14) has a hole dug in the centre of the mound; diam. 50 ft., ht. 4 ft., with a surrounding ditch.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209337 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2153 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18613.

<5> Royal Air Force, 23-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1944 RP 3316 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18913.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 11:05AM