Monument record MDO5107 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Monkton

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Blandford Race Down. The barrow mound measures 17 metres in diameter and 2 metres high and is surrounded by a ditch, too ill-defined for measurement. A hollow in the top of the mound may indicate past excavation. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

(ST 91360836) Tumulus (NR). <2>

ST 91360836. Bowl barrow, 50 ft in diameter and 6 ft high, with surrounding ditch too ill-defined for measurement. <1>

ST 91360836. A bowl barrow on Blandford Race Down. The barrow mound measures 17 metres in diameter and 2 metres high and is surrounded by a ditch which can still be seen on the north and north eastern sides. A hollow in the top of the mound may indicate past excavation. Scheduling amended. <3>

The feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. <5> <6>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 110 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(22) Bowl (91360836), 370 ft. above O.D., lies on top of a broad Chalk ridge in the extreme N.W. of the parish; diam. 50 ft., ht. 6 ft.; surrounding ditch too ill-defined for measurement.'

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

<3> DCMS, 2002, Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduling amendment, 03-SEP-2002, EH Scheduling amendment, 03-SEP-2002 (Scheduling record). SDO18493.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209354 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4008 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18888.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 11:10AM