Monument record MDO5047 - Round barrow, Tarrant Launceston

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is defined by a single narrow ring ditch which encloses a circular area measuring 16m in diameter, with no visible entrances. The size and shape of the enclosure suggest that it could be the plough levelled remains of a Prehistoric funerary monument such as a Bronze Age round barrow but there is no sign of any barrow mound or other internal feature such as a funerary deposit. The barrow is visible as a sub-circular ring ditch cropmark on aerial photographs and as an earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A barrow at ST 93270889 has been levelled by ploughing but is visible on the air photograph as a well defined ring ditch with a diameter of about 50 ft. <1, 2>

The probable Bronze Age round barrow referred to above is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is centred at ST 9327 0889 and is defined by a single narrow ring ditch which encloses a circular area measuring 16m in diameter, with no visible entrances. The size and shape of the enclosure suggest that it could be the plough levelled remains of a Prehistoric funerary monument such as a Bronze Age round barrow but there is no sign of any barrow mound or other internal feature such as a funerary deposit. The aerial photograph reference listed as source <1> no longer exists. <3, 3.1>

The barrow is visible as a sub-circular ring ditch cropmark 20m in diameter on aerial photographs and as a faint earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery [6, 7]. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> National Monuments Record, NMR ST 9510/1, AP (NMR ST 9510/1) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18485.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 106 (Monograph). SDO99.

Tarrant Launceston: Round Barrow No 20

<3> National Monuments Record, 05-SEP-1995, NMR ST 9309/16, NMR ST 9309/16 05-SEP-1995 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18486.

<3.1> National Monuments Record, 05-SEP-1995, NMR 15404/02, NMR 15404/02 05-SEP-1995 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18487.

<4> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number: MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209445 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> National Monuments Record, 04-SEP-1995, NMR 15397/13 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18703.

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

Record last edited

Jan 26 2023 4:57PM