Monument record MDO5781 - Bowl barrow east of Redman's Hill, Horton

A bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was recorded as around 42 feet in diameter with a mound about 3 feet high, and with traces of a surrounding quarry ditch. The site of the barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

The site of a Bronze Age barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on Horton Common <3-4>. It is 14 metres across and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 07310753) Tumulus (NR)

<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), 54-55, fig. 7). … (18) Bowl (07310753), E. of Redman's Hill, towards the N. of Horton Common; diam. 42 ft., ht. 3 ft.’

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<4> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3089-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15599.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212958 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 27 2024 5:48PM