Monument record MDO3488 - Tadnoll Barrow, Crossways

A round barrow on the parish boundary between Osmington (formerly, now Crossways) and Moreton. The eastern part of the barrow has been destroyed by the road. In 1970 this monument recorded as around 56 feet in diameter with a mound about 5 feet high. The barrow sits in a possible tree-ring enclosure.

Tadnoll Barrow, bowl (?) (SY 79148747). On slight knoll in heathland and cut by parish boundary with Moreton, E of which road has destroyed two-thirds of site. Diam about 56 ft, ht about 5 ft; around, and 3 ft from it on W, is a probable tree-clump enclosure, about 75 ft in diameter. <1> <3>

Tadnoll Barrow (name not confirmed) a severely mutilated probable bowl barrow, is generally as described by RCHM <3>. The probable tree-clump enclosure survives on the east and west sides of the road, as a broad bank 4.5m wide and 0.5m high, with an outer ditch 2.0m wide and 0.3m deep, about 30.0m in overall diameter. A clump of mature conifers covers the site. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 121, 174 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 79148747) Tadnoll Barrow (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, 447 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘There are twelve barrows. Two, unidentified, ‘one on the downs and one on the heath’, were opened in the 1890s. Both contained at least one inurned cremation, and from one came two urns, now in D.C.M. (Dorset Procs. XVII (1896), xxv-xxvi; XXIX (1908), 136-7; XXX (1909), xlviii.) … (33) Tadnoll Barrow, bowl (?) (SY 78 NE; 79148747). On slight knoll in heathland and cut by parish boundary with Moreton, E. of which road has destroyed two-thirds of site. Diam. about 56 ft., ht. about 5 ft.; around, and 3 ft. from it on W. is a probable tree-clump enclosure, about 75 ft. In diam.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 04-DEC-1979 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453888 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 4 2024 10:33AM