Monument record MDO5952 - Round barrow, Pentridge

A circular soil mark about 50 feet in diameter visible on aerial photographs and interpreted as a ring ditch, the probable remains of a Bronze Age round barrow.

A ring ditch visible as a cropmark on air photographs. Listed by RCHME as Pentridge 28 and by Grinsell as Pentridge 15, it is one of a line of a possible 5 plough-levelled round barrows east of the Dorset Cursus and just north of the village of Pentridge. RCHME described it as a ring ditch circa 50 feet in diameter. In 1975, WH Hoade suggested it measured 68 feet in diameter, with a ditch 3-4 feet wide. <6>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 57 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘Two ring ditches, probably barrows, appear as soil marks on air photographs (C.U.A.P., ANE 7, 8). They lie close together in the dry valley immediately N. of the village. … (28) Barrow ? (03641816); about 50 ft. in diameter.’

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1976, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1975, 45-49 (Serial). SDO75.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 47 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke (Monograph). SWX800.

<5> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 8 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313606 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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