Monument record MDO6484 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton, Woodlands

The site of the round barrow, of Prehistoric or Roman date, is visible as an cropmark on aerial photographs and lidar imagery. It lies 780m to the WSW of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is an outlier to the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 31m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 0158 0964. A rapid examination of air photography suggests the presence of a round barrow site, of Prehistoric or Roman date, visible as a ring ditch cropmark, in the river valley north of Stanbridge Mill Farm. <3-5>

Noted by Grinsell in 1982, when he measured it as 22 paces in diameter. Ring-ditch assumed to be a levelled barrow. <1>

The site lies within an arable area and is not visible as a surface feature. Not recommended for scheduling. <7>

The site of a round barrow is visible as an earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <6, 8>. It lies 780m to the WSW of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is an outlier to the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 31m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 58, No 31 (Monograph). SWX1703.

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

Not visited. Pasture field when viewed from a distance.

<3> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR SU 0109/2 (4554/40) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19315.

<4> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR SU 0109/4-7 (4554/51-54) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19316.

<5> Miller, Andrew, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment AM, Andrew Miller/05-FEB-1993/RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project (Verbal communication). SDO17356.

<6> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

<7> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, Anon, undated (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<8> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 983765 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 30 2023 11:59AM