Monument record MDO5888 - Round barrow north of Sweetbriar Drove, Pamphill

Barrow on the summit of a low knoll is north of the sweetbriar drove. The barrow is visible as a ring ditch cropmark on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted from these sources by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A barrow (ST 96540139), on the summit of a low knoll N of Sweetbrier Drove, appears as a ring ditch on an air photograph. <1>

The barrow is visible as a ring ditch cropmark on aerial photographs <2-3>. The feature is approximately 12.6m in diameter to include a 1.1m wide ditch.

The site is still fields under crop on current Google Earth imagery. The feature is visible in 2002 (4). It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 53 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(90) Barrow (96540139), on the summit of a low knoll N. of Sweetbrier Drove, appears as a ring-ditch on an air photograph (N.M.R., ST 9500/1); diam. About 40 ft.'

<1.1> NMR ST 9500/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19370.

<2> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4097-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16269.

<3> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-47, RAF/CPE/UK/2102 RP 3249-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16263.

<4> Google Earth, 2002, Google Earth imagery (Aerial Photograph). SDO15980.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209583 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2023 4:24PM