Monument record MDO7697 - Bronze Age round barrow, Stokeford Heath, East Stoke

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Stokeford Heath taken in 1945. Another round barrow (MDO7698) is located approximately 100m to the south east of this site and may have been contemporary with it. This site has since been destroyed by a modern sand and gravel pit.

Ditched bowl barrow, 28 yds diameter and 6 ft high, dug into at centre. <2>

Tumulus, 17.5m diameter and 2.0m high and almost destroyed by an east-west track driven through it. There are traces on the north and south sides only of a ditch 1.3m wide and 0.1m deep. <3>

SY 87238825. Bowl (?) barrow about 50 ft diameter and 4 ft high, but largely destroyed. <5>

SY 873883 - SY 876885. Round barrows on Stokeford Heath. Scheduled. <6>

Completely destroyed by gravel digging. Deleted from 1:2500 M.S.D. <7>

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of Stokeford Heath taken in 1945 <8>. It comprises of a circular mound, approximately 15m in diameter. A hollow in the centre of the mound may have been due to previous excavation of this site. Another round barrow (MDO7698) is located approximatly 100m to the south east of this site and may have been contemporary with it. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. It is not visible on the most recent aerial imagery available to the project, having since been destroyed by a modern sand and gravel pit.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1938 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 87238825) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grimes, W F, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (W F Grimes), 24-APR-1939 (Map). SWX2943.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 87238825) Tumulus (NR) (site of) (NAT)

<5> 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.

'(41) Bowl (?) (SY 88 NE; 87238825) on almost level site near top of steep scarp to S. Diam. About 50 ft., ht. 4 ft., but largely destroyed.'

<6> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 63 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<7> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<8> Royal Air Force, 10-FEB-1945, RAF 106G/LA/128 7053-54 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13195.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, F52/44/1 (Index). SDO14738.

PARTLY DESTROYED BARROW FROM SY 8720 8825 LOOKING EAST NOW COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY GRAVEL DIGGING

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F44/1 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROW - 17.5M DIAMETER AND 2M HIGH.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455156 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 13 2024 10:00AM