Monument record MDO5074 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Launceston

A bowl barrow recorded as being about 30 feet in diameter and much reduced in height, but still visible as a cropmark ring ditch on air photographs.

A bowl barrow about 30ft in diameter, situated at ST 9582 1132, has been levelled by ploughing but is visible as a ring-ditch soil mark on the northward-facing slope of a dry combe which falls E to the Crichel brook. The dyke (ST 91 SW 40) skirts the barrow on the S. <1>

Levelled by ploughing prior to 1972, and not even visible as a cropmark. Not recommended for scheduling.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 107 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(45) Bowl (95821132), now levelled by ploughing, but visible as a ring-ditch soil-mark, lies at 230 ft. above O.D. on the northward-facing slope of a dry combe which falls E. to the Crichel brook. The first Dyke noted above (16) skirts it to the S. Diam. about 30 ft.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, p51 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, SJ Lobb, MPPA, Mar-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210095 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 26 2023 4:59PM