Monument record MDO5123 - Round barrow, Tarrant Monkton

(Centred ST 92900861) Tumuli (NR) (Three shown). <2>

Three barrows on Monkton Down, situated at ST 92900864, ST 92920860 and ST 92880860, were destroyed during construction of Blandford military camp. <1, 3>

Note: 3 barrows were originally recorded under a single NRHE UID but were subsequently separated into 3 separate records on the Dorset HER. Therefore the 3 barrows all share the same NRHE UID 209380 and NMR number ST 90 NW 40. They are MDO5122, MDO5123 and MDO5124.

Note: The group of five barrows situated to the west of Blackland Plantation consists of the following 5 barrows: MDO5120, MDO5121, MDO5122, MDO5123 & MDO5124.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 136, Nos 9-11 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, OS 6" 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 110 (Monograph). SDO99.

'Monuments (22-24), Round Barrows. Three barrows remain, but ten others have been destroyed since 1914 in the construction of Blandford military camp (Dorset Barrows, 136). Three of the destroyed monuments (Dorset Barrows, Nos. 2-4) lay around 914080, in an E.-W. line at the W. end of Monkton Down; two (Nos. 5 and 6) lay on the W. of Pond Bottom Plantation, around 920076, forming a compact group with (23) and (24); five (Nos. 9-13) lay W. of Blackland Plantaton, between 929086 and 930081. None of these barrows is known to have been excavated and all references to early excavations in Tarrant Monkton concern barrows in Launceston, which until the 19th century was part of Monkton parish. Certain barrows, however, which were excavated 'on Keynston Down' in 1846, may have been inside the boundary of Monkton (see Tarrant Keyneston, Round Barrows). Air photographs (C.U.A.P., ANC 73,74) show soil-marks of four ring-ditches, probably the remains of barrows, in a tight cluster at 95480934.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209380 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 8 2024 12:46PM