Monument record MDO40121 - Undated mounds and hollows, Matterley Cottages Farm, Woodlands

Irregular mounds and hollows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 to the east of Matterley Cottages. The features lie in the vicinity of a number of known barrows belonging to the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group and may therefore be of prehistoric archaeological origin however a natural geomorphological origin is also possible. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 0211 0928. Five probable Bronze Age round barrows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and have been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The barrows cover an area from SU 0213 0932 to SU 0213 0918. They appear as roughly circular features with diameters from 11.6m to 17.6m which seem to indicate the presence of solid mound material, although the barrows have been completely levelled by ploughing. This barrow group is associated with the extensive barrow cemetery known as the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. <1>

Irregular mounds and hollows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 to the east of Matterley Cottages <2>. The features lie in the vicinity of a number of known barrows belonging to the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group and may therefore be of prehistoric archaeological origin however a natural geomorphological origin is also possoble. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Stoertz, Cathy, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial photograph interpreter's comments (Verbal communication). SDO19474.

<1.1> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, JRB 3097/2 (NMR SU0209/7) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15721.

<1.2> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/49 (NMR SU 0209/28) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15728.

<2> National Monuments Record, 18-MAR-1970, NMR 172/183-7 (NMR SU 0209/5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15730.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1409682 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 15 2023 3:28PM