Monument record MDO7137 - Oval barrow, Bere Regis

A circular crop-mark around 75 feet across seen on aerial photographs and interpreted as a probable round barrow. The barrow appears to be oval in shape (30m by 20m) and therefore potentially later Neolithic or Bronze Age in date; it was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

SY 83979748. Barrow (?) on a gentle rise above 200ft. is known only from an unbroken circular crop-mark, about 75ft. diameter, visible on air phorograph. <1>

SY 83969749. The cropmark of a ditch which appears to be rather oval in plan, is visible on OS air photographs. Including a
ditch mark about 4.0 metres wide, it measures approximately 33.0 metres east to west and 22.5 metres north to south. It is within a former field system (SY 89 NW 33), and two banks extend from it; one towards the north-west and the other north-east. There is nothing visible on the ground. <2>

The barrow appears to be oval in shape (30m by 20m) and therefore potentially later Neolithic or Bronze Age in date; it was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 437 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(108) Barrow (?) (SY 89 NW; 83979748) on gentle rise above 200 ft., 135 yds. N. of (107). Known only from unbroken circular crop-mark about 75 ft. in diam., visible on Cambridge University O.A.P. LR 85.'

<1.1> Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, CUCAP LR 85 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19684.

<2> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 21-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<2.1> 18-APR-1980, OS 80/021 163-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19685.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456043 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 19 2023 8:10PM