Monument record MDO5334 - Round barrow, one of the Deverel Down Group, Winterborne Whitechurch

A round barrow reported as being around 30 feet in diameter and visible as a slight earthwork. The site of this plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark mound and cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

A group of round barrows on Deverel Down in Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Whitechurch parishes. 'A' - SY 82349938. Barrow?, heavily ploughed and now visible as a slight rise about 30ft diameter. (RCHM Winterborne Whitechurch No 22; Grinsell's Milton Abbas No 5). <2-3>

SY 822993. Group of six round barrows on Deverell Down. Scheduled. (This group undoubtably includes some of the barrows at SY 821991 - See SY 89 NW 16). <4>

'A' - SY 82349938. Not found. <5>

The site of this plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a soilmark mound and cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs <7-8> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 822993) Tumuli (NR) (five shown)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 120-1 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 317 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(22) Barrow ? (82349938), 30 yds. N.E. of (21), is now visible only as a slight rise; diam. about 30 ft.'

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 66 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455857 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> National Monuments Record, 21-APR-1976, NMR 926/424-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20778.

<8> Next Perspectives, 21-AUG-2001, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (Aerial Photograph). SDO19893.

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