Monument record MDO5048 - Round barrow, Tarrant Launceston

A probable Bronze Age round barrow visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph. The site comprises a well defined ring ditch with a diameter of about 40 ft. Much reduced by ploughing, though visible as a ring-ditch on aerial photographs. The feature is visible as a cropmark on a 1947 aerial photograph and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A round barrow at ST 93250983 has been levelled by ploughing but is visible on the air photograph (a) as a well defined ring ditch with a diameter of about 40 ft. <1, 2>

Unfortunately the aerial photograph listed as source <2> cannot be traced and the site is not visible on any other available photograph. <3>

The feature is visible as a cropmark on a 1947 aerial photograph and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project [5].

<1> National Monuments Record, NMR ST 9510/1, AP (NMR ST 9510/1) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18485.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 106 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(21) Bowl (93250983), on the N. slope of a Chalk spur at 230 ft. above O.D., has now been levelled by ploughing, but is visible as a ring-ditch, about 40 ft. in diameter, on the air photograph noted in (20) [N.M.R., ST 9510/1]'

<3> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Sharon Bishop/08-SEP-08/Tarrant Launceston 15 and environs aerial photograph survey and analysis (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209425 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2152 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18054.

Record last edited

Jan 26 2023 4:57PM