Monument record MDO7351 - Bronze Age barrow, Church Knowle

Situated at SY 92608217 is a turf and bramble covered mound with a diameter of 9.0m and a height of 0.4m with no surrounding ditch, which may be a bowl barrow. <1>

SY 92608217, Church Knowle 14. Listed, with reference to OS card (Authy 1), as a probable barrow. <2>

This mound was not identified. The indicated area falls at the end of a flat and narrow ridge top where the ground surface has been disturbed and at present is covered by bramble and gorse. <3>

A slight mound, 10m across, is possibly the site of a Bronze Age round barrow. It is visible as a very low earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1946 <4> and was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 17-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 37 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F2 MJF 30-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2414-15 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13481.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB74/04546 (Index). SDO14738.

PLAN OF LONG BARROW WITH A VERY ROUNDED ALMOST OVAL APPEARANCE

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456966 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 7:50PM