Monument record MDO5049 - Bowl barrow 700m south of Old Turnpike, Tarrant Launceston

A Bronze Age bowl barrow 700m south of Old Turnpike, Tarrant Launceston, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

(94841077), 200 yds, N.W. of Hyde Hill Plantation, lies at 350 ft above O.D. on the shoulder of a westward-facing slope; diam. 60 ft., ht. 5 ft., which traces of a surrounding ditch. A low mound 35 yds to the N., sometimes taken as a barrow, is almost certainly the remains of a 'Celtic' field angle. <2>

The probable Bronze Age round barrow referred to above is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The barrow is centred at ST 9484 1078, measures 21m in diameter and comprises a circular mound which is surrounded by a ring ditch. The barrow mound measures circa 17 metres in diameter. A hollow in the top of the mound may indicate that it has been partly excavated. The surrounding ring ditch has become in-filled over the years. <3>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow 700m south of Old Turnpike, Tarrant Launceston, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery <4-5>. The feature comprises a central circular mound approximately 16m in diameter, within a 2.7m wide ditch. An oval hollow within the mound may be due to prior excavation. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

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

(ST 94831077) Tumulus (NR)

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

<3> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey and Analysis (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<3.1> Royal Air Force, 13-JAN-1943, RAF/HLA/651 1137-1138 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18390.

<3.2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, MD002384 EH: Tarrant Launceston 15 and environs aerial photograph survey and analysis (Index). SDO14738.

Material still held by aerial survey. The area comprises 10.5km² and is bounded by ST 930 080 (SW corner) and ST 965 110 (NE corner).

<4> Royal Air Force, 23-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1944 FS 2312 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18047.

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

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210245 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 5:00PM