Monument record MDO42879 - Bronze Age barrow, Grimstone Down, Stratton

A Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs on Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

One of a group of round barrows on Grimstone Down: Barrow 'D' - SY 64389557. A bowl barrow, 45 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. <1>

Barrow 'D' - SY 64389557 one of six grass covered bowl barrows varying from 6.5 to 16 metres in diameter and 0.7 to 2 metres high. <2>

"SY 642958. Group of four mound barrows on Grimstone Down". Scheduled. <5>

The barrow is as described by Authority <2>. A bowl barrow 15.4 metres in diameter, 1.7 metres high. Barrow revised at 1:2500 on MSD. <6>

A Bronze Age barrow, possibly a bowl barrow, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs on Grimstone Down, Stratton <7>.
The feature comprises a very low indistinct earthwork mound approximately 15m in diameter and is part of a barrow cemetery comprising eight barrows (NHRE Hob UID 1457329). The feature is positioned within the banks of an Iron Age/RB field system (MDO42865) and is respected by these. It is recorded as a tumulus on the OS 1st Edition map <8>.

The feature is still visible on current Google Earth imagery <9>. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 229 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(15) BOWL BARROWS, on Grimstone Down, are eight in number… (d), 240 yards W. by S. of (a), is 45 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high.'

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 27-JAN-1955 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(Centred SY 645955) Tumuli (NR) (twice) Tumulus (NR (Seven mounds shown)

<5> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 69 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<6> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<7> National Monuments Record, 26-MAR-68, SY6495/5 (NMR666/385) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16867.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<9> Google Earth, 16-09-2020, Google Earth imagery 2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16840.

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, ORD01/02 (Index). SDO14738.

Archaeological photographs. NAR Photograph Cataloguing Project

<11> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F32/7 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROWS AT STRATTON. EARTHWORK FROM THE WEST.

<12> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F32/8 (Index). SDO14738.

BOWL BARROWS AT STRATTON. EARTHWORK FROM WEST.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1457329 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2024 6:50AM