Monument record MDO5739 - Round barrow, one of the High Lea Farm Group, Hinton Martell

One of a loose cluster of at least ten round barrows visible as slight earthworks and crop marks on aerial photographs. In 1975 this monument was recorded as being around 60 feet in diameter and ploughed flat. The barrow was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

'(24) Barrow (00160630), 60 yds N.E. of (23); diam. 60 ft.; ploughed out'. (1)
A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks and was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Stour NMP (2-3). It is one of at least ten barrows known as the High Lea Farm group. The barrow ring ditch is 15m across with no traces of an internal bank.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 31 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘High Lea Farm Group comprises at least ten barrows sited in a field, about 135 ft. above O.D., on a gentle N.W. slope falling to the R. Allen. Only (17) and (26) survive as earthworks; the others form a scatter in the same field and are visible as soil-marks on air photographs (N.M.R., ST 9906/1). . . (24) Barrow (00160630), 60 yds N.E. of (23); diam. 60 ft.; ploughed out.’

<2> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1989, NMR 4527/15-17 (NMR SU0006/4-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15718.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 24-JUL-1995, OS/95633 V 224-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15716.

Record last edited

Feb 23 2018 2:50PM