Monument record MDO719 - Bowl barrow, Cerne Abbas

Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow on Black Hill, recorded during survey work by the Central Excavation Unit in 1981-82, recorded as measuring 10.2 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. The feature is discernable as a ring ditched cropmark on a 2015 aerial photograph and as a low earthwork mound on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow on Black Hill, recorded during survey work by the Central Excavation Unit in 1981-82, recorded as measuring 10.2 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high.

The feature is discernable as a ring ditched cropmark on a 2015 aerial photograph and as a low earthwork mound on Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <2, 3>

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1983, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1982, 69 (Serial). SDO82.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<3> Historic England, 01-OCT-2015, HEA 29596_001 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17403.

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Nov 1 2024 11:20AM