Monument record MDO571 - Round barrow, Buckland Newton

A mound thought possibly to be a round barrow. In 1959 Grinsell recorded the monument as 12 paces in diameter and 2 feet high. The feature is visible as a low sub-circular mound with an outer ditch on a 1948 aerial photograph and possibly as a more degraded sub-oval mound on 2009 Google Earth imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Possible bowl barrow at ST 67710478, 12 paces in diameter and 2ft high. <1>

There is no trace of a barrow at the grid reference given by Grinsell but at ST 67720481, there is an irregular, elongated grass-covered mound set on a slope. The mound, possibly a barrow, is mutilated. It is 10.0m in diameter NW-SE and 13.0m NE-SW. The south-east side has probably been dug into. <2>

There is no evidence of Grinsell's barrow; subsequent ploughing has erased the possible barrow at ST 67720481, recorded in 1955. The area is currently under pasture. <3>

The feature is visible as a low sub-circular 7m in diameter mound with a 0.5m wide outer ditch on a 1948 aerial photograph and possibly as a more degraded sub-oval mound on 2009 Google Earth imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. The feature is not apparent on current lidar imagery. <5, 6, 7>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

'Possible barrow - LVG.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 19-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 19-0CT-76 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199096 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3356 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20724.

<6> Google Earth, 2009, Google Earth 2009 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15393.

<7> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Aug 8 2024 2:48PM