Monument record MDO7111 - Stand Barrow, Bere Regis

A bowl barrow reported in 1970 as being ploughed but surviving as a slight mound around one foot high and about 57 feet in diameter. The site of the barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

Turf-coverd bowl barrow, 18.0m diameter and 1.2m high with no trace of ditch has been surveyed at SY 84269532. Known locally as 'Stand Barrow'. <1>

Approx SY 84329532. Prominent rise (listed under bowl barrows) ?22 paces diameter and ?3ft high marked as Stand Barrow on Isacc Taylor's estate map 1777 (Drax Ms in Dorset Co Museum). <2>

SY 8429531. Stand Barrow, bowl barrow, 57ft diameter and 1ft high, ploughed and situated on the summit of a small knoll. <4>

SY 84269533. 'Stand Barrow' (name in local use), a bowl barrow diameter 20.0 metres approximately, height 0.8 metres. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

The site of the barrow is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. <8>

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 16-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 89 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 84299531) Tumulus (NR)

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 436 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(82) Stand Barrow (1777), bowl (SY 89 NW; 84289531). On summit of small knoll. Diam. 57 ft., ht. 1 ft. Ploughed.'

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 15-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456020 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Jul 20 2024 6:20PM