Monument record MDO42878 - Possible Bronze Age barrow, Grimstone Down, Stratton

A low sub-circular mound is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature may be a possible Bronze Age round barrow, although it may alternatively be part of a banked field boundary belonging to an Iron Age/RB field system (MDO42865). The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A low sub-circular mound is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton (1, 2). The feature is visible as a low indistinct mound approximately 11.5m in diameter. It is located at a junction of banked field boundaries belonging to an Iron Age/RB field system (MDO42865), visible on current Lidar imagery (2).

The feature may be that recorded as a possible Bronze Age round barrow, although it may alternatively be part of the Iron Age/RB field system (MDO42865). The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 2689-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16863.

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

Record last edited

Nov 17 2020 11:33AM