Monument record MDO6465 - Round barrow, Woodlands

A bowl barrow is shown on the 1968 Ordnance Survey map. No earthwork remains were found during field survey, but the barrow has been mapped from aerial photographs by English Heritage's Knowlton Circles Project.

Bowl barrow. (No dimensions given) <1>

SU 0215 0989. The barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as a partial ring ditch 24m in diameter. It has been mapped, and its location refined, by EH's Knowlton Circles project. <3>

Not visible on Aps and there is no trace of the feature in the field. There appears to be a small natural knoll spread by ploughing. Not recommended for scheduling. <4>

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, Papworth, MDJ TWA 19 February 1986 (Index). SDO134.

‘No visible trace in a field ploughed in the past but in established grass when visited. SW of a hedgerow.’

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 158 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 02160991) Tumulus (NR) (site of) (NAT)

<3> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, NMR SU 0210/37/4 (JRB 3097/4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18694.

<4> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF1339047 (Index). SDO14738.

EH: Knowlton Circles, Dorset

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213061 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 8 2024 7:27PM