Monument record MDO5140 - Bowl barrow at The Cliff, Tarrant Rawston

Bowl barrow, former diameter 60 ft, height 2 ft. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The barrow is visible as a banked and ditched sub-circular cropmark on an aerial photograph dated 1995 and as an earthwork on current lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Aim Project.

ST 94900717. Bowl barrow, formerly 60 ft in diameter and 2 ft high, but now much reduced by ploughing. <2>

The barrow is visible as a banked and ditched sub-circular cropmark approximately 20.5m in diameter in total on an aerial photograph dated 1995 and as an earthwork on current lidar imagery <3-4>. A possible ditch, 1.5m wide, is visible as a cropmark, entire except on its southwest side [3]. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Aim Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 112 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(11) Bowl 94900717); diam. formerly 60ft., ht 2ft.'

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

(St 94890716) Tumulus (NR)

<3> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR 15324/30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18482.

<4> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209389 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 12:19PM