Monument record MDO5779 - Bronze Age round barrow, Horton Common, Horton

A Bronze Age round barrow lies adjacent to the B3078 to the north of Horton Inn Cottages, Horton. The barrow mound is visible on lidar imagery and two outer concentric ditches are partially visible on aerial photographs taken in 1989. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

(SU 01810877) Tumulus (NR). <1>

SU 01810877. The barrow mound is composed of earth, chalk and turf and measures up to 25 metres in diameter and roughly 2 metres in height. <3>

A Bronze Age round barrow lies adjacent to the B3078 to the north of Horton Inn Cottages, Horton. The barrow mound is visible on lidar imagery <4> and parts of two outer concentric ditches are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1989 <5>. The outer ring ditch is 37m across and the site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1968 (Map). SDO17337.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 37 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Seven barrows are known, four of them in a compact group on Horton Common. A barrow 'on Horton Heath', possibly one of the group, yielded a barrel urn of 'South Lodge' type, now in D.C.M. (Dorset Procs., XXIX (1908), 138; Ant. J., XIII (1933), 445; Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 54–5, fig. 7).
(16) Bowl (01810877), N.E. of Horton Inn, immediately W. of the Cranborne-Wimborne road, lies on the slope of a low spur overlooking the Allen valley; diam. 90 ft., ht. 9 ft.; tree-covered.'

<3> English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 15-JUL-2003 (Scheduling record). SDO17245.

<4> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<5> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/60-3 (NMR SU 0108/14-17) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15732.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213029 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 10:20AM