Monument record MDO7694 - Bronze Age round barrow, Great Plantation, East Stoke

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork mound surrounded by an outer ditch on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery of Great Plantation, East Stoke. This feature was plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Ditched bowl barrow, 21.0m in diameter and 2.0m high with surounding ditch 2.0m wide and 0.3m deep. Much of the barrow
has been destroyed by tanks. <2>

SY 85998811 Ditched bowl barrow, 66ft diameter and 8ft high with a tank track through the centre. <3>

SY 85988809. Bowl barrow, with overall diameter 30.0 metres and 2.0 metres height, with a ditch visible in part, 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. The barrow has been cut through by a trench, leaving a ridge across the mound and destroying part of the ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A Bronze Age round barrow, approximately 21.7m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork mound surrounded by an outer ditch on aerial photographs <5> and Lidar imagery <6> of Great Plantation, East Stoke. A linear hollow runs northwest-south-east through the mound and may be the result of previous excavation of this site. This feature was plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 85988809) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 18-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 452 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘All twenty-one barrows lie on heathland to N. and S. of the Frome, eleven in two groups. That on West Holme Heath is a good example of a linear group related to only a slight ridge. Many have been damaged by military activity. A completely excavated example on Chick’s Hill (22) produced a primary cremation in a globular urn. In another small barrow at Highwood, now unidentifiable but possibly one of (21-5), were three inverted urns with cremations at a depth of 2 ft. (Hutchins I, 413). . . . (38) Ditched bowl (SY 88 NE; 85998811). Diam. 66 ft., ht. 8 ft. Tank track through centre.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

<6> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Historic England, Historic England Archive, F52/71/2 (Index). SDO14738.

DITCHED BOWL BARROW PARTLY DESTROYED BY TANK TRACKS, VIEW SE

<9> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F71/2 (Index). SDO14738.

BARROW FROM THE NORTH WEST.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455118 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2024 2:47PM