Monument record MDO7778 - Henbury Barrow, Lytchett Matravers

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on a flat-topped spur in woodland. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 47 feet in diameter with a mound about seven feet high. The barrow is visible on current Environment Agency lidar imagery as a conical banked circular mound just under 15m in diameter. IT was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A bowl barrow. Diameter 16 paces. Height 7ft. Ditched covered with dense vegetation. For name see Fagersten. <2-3>

A bowl barrow with a mutilated ditch. The mound has a diameter of 14.0m., and a height of 2.0m., it is covered with trees and brambles. On the east, south-west and south quadrants the ditch is 5.0m. Wide and 0.3m. Deep; elsewhere there are only unsurveyable traces. <4>

SY 94899821. Henbury Barrow, bowl barrow 47ft. Diameter and 7ft. High situated on a flat-topped spur. Overgrown. <6>

SY 949980. Henbury Barrow, round barrow - scheduled. <7>

SY 94899821. Henbury Barrow (name in local usage) a bowl barrow as described. Faint traces of a ditch (not surveyable). Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <8>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on a flat-topped spur in woodland. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 47 feet in diameter with a mound about seven feet high.

The barrow is visible on current Environment Agency lidar imagery as a conical banked circular mound just under 15m in diameter [3]. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1929 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 94899821) Henbury Barrow. Tumulus (NR)

<2> Fagersten, A, 1933, Place-names of Dorset, 114-5 (Monograph). SDO17521.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-NOV-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 94899821) Henbury Barrow (NR)

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 446 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(37) Henbury Barrow, bowl (SY 99 NW; 94899821) in Lower Sandy Coppice above 100 ft. contour on flat-topped spur. Diam. 47 ft., ht. 7 ft. Overgrown.'

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 66 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 19-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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

<10> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457274 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 20 2025 1:13PM