Monument record MDO45147 - Possible Bronze Age round barrow, Tarrant Monkton

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible to the east of Tarrant Monkton as a ring ditch cropmark on an aerial photograph dated 2015. The feature is recorded as a possible round barrow or later prehistoric roundhouse under NRHE Hob UI 1622766. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A possible later prehistoric round house or Bronze Age round barrow was recorded as cropmarks on 2015 Historic England oblique aerial photographs. It is defined by a ring ditch measuring about 10-15m in diameter. Adjacent pits could be archaeological in origin. It is centred at ST 9563 0868. <1>

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible to the east of Tarrant Monkton as a 14m in diameter ring ditch cropmark on an aerial photograph dated 2015 <2>. The feature is recorded as a possible round barrow or later prehistoric roundhouse under NRHE Hob UI 1622766. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

23-APR-2015, Historic England Archive 29565_006-010 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19313.

<2> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, HEA 29565/003 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19086.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1622766 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 30 2023 11:26AM