Monument record MDO6466 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton, Woodlands

The site of plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark double-concentric ring ditch on aerial photographs . It lies to the south of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 25m across and the inner 14m; it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A group of three ring ditches just south of Knowlton Circles, in an area of bowl barrows. `A' - SU 02250948. Double concentric ring ditch.<1>

A rapid examination of air photography <3-5> suggests the presence of a fourth, smaller ring ditch ('D'), visible as a cropmark at SU 0224 0956. <2>

The four round barrows described by authorities 1-2 have been mapped from aerial photographs by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. Their locations and dimensions were fixed more accurately by that survey: A - SU 0225 0948; inner diameter 15m, outer diameter 25m.

These barrows are part of a much larger group of round barrows extending southwards from the Knowlton South henge. <5-6>

The site of plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark double-concentric ring ditch on aerial photographs <7-8>. It lies to the south of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 25m across and the inner 14m; it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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

‘No visible trace in a field regularly ploughed and newly ploughed and planted in grass when visited.’

<1> Ordnance Survey, 25-Jun-1975, OS/75/284 046-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18702.

<2> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<3> 06-SEP-1989, NMR SU 0209/9, 11 (NMR 4491/33, 35) (Aerial Photograph). SDO20273.

<4> 06-SEP-1989, NMR SU 0209/13-15 (NMR 4492/02-4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO20274.

<5> Boyden, J R, 02/07/76, NMR SU 0209/8/3 (JRB 3097/3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19487.

<6> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/49 (NMR SU 0209/28) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15728.

<7> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<8> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/37-44 (SU 0209/18-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15725.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213105 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 12 2024 7:30PM