Monument record MDO2554 - Howdes Barrow on Stratton Down, Stratton

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1952 this monument was reported as being around 30 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high. It has been disturbed in the middle, presumably in the course of antiquarian investigation. The feature is visible as a low mound with a central hollow in the top on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

SY 65519574) Tumulus (NR). (1)

Bowl barrow, 30 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet high situated on Stratton Down, 720 yds south-east of Jackman's Cross. It has been disturbed in the centre. (2)

A tree and grass covered bowl barrow with a large central hollow. Diameter 12 metres, height 1metre. No ditch. (3)

SY 65519575. A bowl barrow listed as `Howde's Barrow' by Grinsell is 10 paces diameter and 3.5ft high with hollow centre. (4)

SY 65509574: bowl barrow as described. The name `Howdes Barrow' is applied to the plantation in which it lies.

Revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (5)

The feature is visible as a low mound just over 10m in diameter with a central hollow in the top on current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8>

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

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

(SY 65519574) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 229 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(17) BOWL BARROW, on Stratton Down near the E. edge of the parish and 720 yards S.E. of Jackman's Cross, is 30 ft. in diam. and 2½ ft. high. It has been disturbed in the middle.’

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 20-JAN-1955 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 132 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 30-JAN-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1981, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1979, 140 (Serial). SDO79.

'STRATTON (SY 65519575). Mrs. S. Campbell notes that Howdes Barrow (RCHM monument 17) is mentioned in a 1606 survey of the manor of Charminster. A 1770 copy is in the DCRO, ref. D60/M5).'

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452955 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 22 2024 9:26AM