Monument record MDO6479 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton, Woodlands

A ring ditch 29m in diameter at Knowlton is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature is one of a group of similar features at this location and is associated with the extensive barrow cemetery known as the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. It probably represents a Bronze Age round barrow. There was no visible trace of the feature on the ground in 1986 and it has not been recommended for scheduling. It is truncated on its southwest side by a historic field boundary. The area is now occupied by a cattle trough and the whole area reduced by tread. It was mapped by English Heritage’s Knowlton Circles Project and it was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

The site of a ring ditch identified from an aerial photograph and recorded as being 27 paces in diameter by LV Grinsell. There was no visible trace of the feature on the ground in 1986, and it has not been recommended for scheduling. The area is now occupied by a cattle trough and the whole area reduced by tread. Ground photo with MPPA archive report <6-7>.

SU 0195 1012. A Bronze Age round barrow defined by a single ditch 27.5m in diameter is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs and has been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. This barrow is associated with the extensive barrow cemetery known as the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. <1>

A ring ditch at Knowlton, Woodlands, is visible as a cropmark on a 1977 aerial photograph <2>. The feature is semi-circular, measuring 29m by 28.5m and truncated on its southwest side by a historic field boundary. The ditch is faintly visible extending beyond the field boundary to the southwest.

The feature is one of a group of similar features at this location and is probably a Bronze Age barrow. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, NMR SU 0210/37/4 (JRB 3097/4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18694.

<2> National Monuments Record, 18-MAY-77, NMR 1131/004-5 (SU0210/15) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15692.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, 19.2.86 (Index). SDO134.

‘No visible trace in a field regularly ploughed. The field was in stubble when visited. A hedge boundary immediately to SW.’

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, Object Number: AF1339047. Object Title: EH: Knowlton Circles, Dorset (Index). SDO14738.

<6> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, Anon, undated (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, Dorset SMR 3028-82 (Index). SDO14738.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1408597 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 15 2023 4:24PM