Monument record MDO6467 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton, Woodlands

The site of plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with traces of an internal mound 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 26m across; 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. `B' - SU 02270935 & `C' - SU 02410939. Single ring ditches. <1>

The four round barrows described by authority <1> have been mapped from aerial photographs by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. Their locations and dimensions were fixed more accurately by that survey: B - SU 0221 0935; 26.8m in diameter.

These barrows are part of a much larger group of round barrows extending southwards from the Knowlton South henge. <2-4>

The site of plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark double-concentric ring ditch on aerial photographs <5>. 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.

‘Visible at this grid reference is a faint rise that stands out from the surrounding field as a concentration of chalk and flint. It has been severely reduced and spread by ploughing in a field regularly ploughed and newly ploughed and planted in grass when visited. Slightly oval in plan.#

<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 Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project (Unpublished document).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> Boyden, J R, 02/07/76, NMR SU 0209/8/3 (JRB 3097/3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19487.

<4> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/49 (NMR SU 0209/28) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15728.

<5> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/40 (NMR SU 0191/3) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15729.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213105 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 8 2024 7:25PM