Monument record MDO7700 - Bronze Age round barrow, Stokeford Heath, East Stoke

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery of Stokeford Heath. It comprises of a circular mound surrounded by an outer ditch.

'A' - Ditched bowl barrow, 23 yds diameter and 5 ft high and undisturbed. (2)

'A' - Ditched bowl barrow, heather-covered and 16.5m diameter and 1.1m high. The surrounding ditch averages 1.1m wide and 0.3m deep. (3)

'A' - (44) - SY 87648857. Ditched bowl barrow, 47 ft diameter and 5 ft high on slight north slope. (5)

SY 873883 - SY 876885. Round barrows on Stokeford Heath. Scheduled. (see also SY 88 NE 12). (6)

'A'. SY 87638856. A well-preserved bowl barrow with a markedly flat top and a well-defined ditch, 2.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep. Overall diameter 19.5 metres, height 1.7 metres. 'A' resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (7)

Barrow 'A' has been completely destroyed by quarrying. (8)

A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (1) and Lidar imagery (2) of Stokeford Heath. It comprises of a circular mound, approximately 13.6m in diameter, surrounded by an outer ditch approximately 1m wide. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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

('A' - SY 87638857; 'B' - SY 87468828) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 29-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 87638857) Tumulus (NR)

<4> 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.

‘(44) Ditched bowl (SY 88 NE; 87648857) on slight N. slope below 100 ft. Diam. 47 ft., ht. 5 ft.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 07-MAY-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3059-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13189.

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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455151 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 13 2024 10:09AM