Monument record MDO5045 - Round barrow, Tarrant Launceston

A damaged Bronze Age barrow, comprises of an oval mound, 50 feet by 35 feet across and 2 ½ feet high. The barrow is visible as a slightly elongated oval mound on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset MiddleStour AIM project.

A damaged round barrow situated at ST 92730924, within the Romano-British (ST 90 NW 9), comprises an oval mound, 50 ft by 35 ft across by 2 1/2 ft high. <1>

The barrow is visible as a slightly elongated oval mound on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset MiddleStour AIM project. <3-6>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 106 (Monograph). SDO99.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209411 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<3> Royal Air Force, 23-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1944 RP 3316 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18913.

<4> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4008 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18888.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2153 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18613.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Nov 1 2024 2:06PM