Monument record MDO6432 - Bronze Age barrow, Knowlton, Woodlands

The site of a large Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal mound on aerial photographs at the given grid reference. It lies to the south of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The ring ditch is 56m across and the inner mound 27.5m across. This barrow and numerous others within the Knowlton Barrow Group were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

'Barrows (29-38) lie S. and S. W. of the South Circle on both sides of the Cranborne-Wimborne road. One of them, when partly levelled, appears to have yielded skeletons ( see G. A. Cooke c1818 in sources).
The site of a large Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with internal mound on aerial photographs at the given grid reference (4-5). It lies to the south of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The ring ditch is 56m across and the inner mound 27.5m across. This barrow and numerous others within the Knowlton Barrow Group were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 213018 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Cooke, G A, 1818, Topographical Description of Dorset (Monograph). SDO14045.

Dayrell Reed, T, 1947, The Rise of Wessex, a Further Essay in Dark Age History, 286 (Monograph). SWX3113.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 116 (Monograph). SDO129.

<4> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<5> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/37-44 (SU 0209/18-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15725.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 11:57AM