Monument record MDO7815 - White Barrow, Morden

A sub-circular mound in a field to the north of Morden is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is considered to possibly be a Bronze Age bowl barrow and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

(SY 91029665. White Barrow (a); bowl (?) on fairly level arable about 140 ft above O.D. Only a broad irregular rise about 2 1/2ft high remains, suggesting former larger mound. <1> <3>

SY 91019664. 'White Barrow' (name not confirmed, not in local use), a barrow in arable, approximately 30.0 metres in diameter and 1.0 metres high. There is no visible ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A sub-circular mound in a field to the north of Morden is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [3, 4]. The feature measure around 23m in diameter and is positioned at the southern end of a possible later prehistoric field boundary (part of field system MDO46533). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 91019664) Tumulus (NR)

<3> 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.

'(55) White Barrow (Taylor's Estate Map, 1773), bowl (?) (SY 99 NW; 91029665) on fairly level arable about 140 ft. above O.D. Only broad irregular rise about 2½ ft. high remains, suggesting former large mound.'

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 01-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2132 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19964.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<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 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document).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, 457216 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 21 2024 3:27PM