Monument record MDO6469 - 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 SW of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 47m across and the inner 8m; it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 0208 0947. A Bronze Age round barrow within the southern part of the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs and has been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The barrow is defined by a circular ditch 45m in diameter. At its centre lies a second very small circular ditch 8.4m in diameter. <3-5>

The site of plough levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark double-concentric ring ditch on aerial photographs <6-8>. It lies to the SW of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 47m across and the inner 8m; it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 58 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<2> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey (Index). SDO134.

‘No visible trace in a field heavily ploughed in the past but in established grass when visited. NB. Salvage record? Cooke G A/1818/Topographical Desc. of Dorset/p 151.’

<4> 06-SEP-1989, NMR SU 0209/28-9 (NMR 4554/49-50) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19488.

<5> 05-SEP-1995, NMR SU 0209/36 (15404/32) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19489.

<6> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, JRB 3097/3 (NMR 0209/8) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15724.

<7> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/37-44 (SU 0209/18-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15725.

<8> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF1339047 (Index). SDO14738.

EH: Knowlton Circles, Dorset

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1409655 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 27 2023 4:24PM