Monument record MDO5077 - Bowl barrow on Parish Boundaries between Long Crichel and Tarrant Launceston

A bowl barrow, perhaps of Early Bronze Age date, located on the boundary between the parishes of Long Crichel and Tarrant Launceston. Listed by Grinsell as Long Crichel 4 and by RCHME as Tarrant Launceston 48. Described by RCHME as having been levelled by the early 1970s, the mound had previously been recorded as 60 feet in diameter and surviving to a height of about 1 foot. EBA Beaker potsherds were found in a rabbit scrape on the mound by G Wilmot in April 1937. On arable, showing as chalk ring enclosing core of mould. <2 & 2a> , <3>

Situated 55 yds NE of the barrow (ST 91 SE 47).

This barrow had been levelled by 1972 and further degradation means that it has not been recommended for scheduling. Ground photo with archive report. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, OS 6” 1891 (Map). SWX1540.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 118 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2.1> Drew, Lt Col C D, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: (Lt Col C D Drew. Curator, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester), Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments. CD Drew (Verbal communication). SWX2099.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 107 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(48) Bowl (95771153), 55 yds. N.E. of (47) and on the parish boundary with Long Crichel, is now levelled; former diam. 60 ft., ht. 1 ft. (Dorset Barrows, Long Crichel No.4). Beaker sherds were found in a rabbit scrape on the mound in 1937 (note by C. D. Drew, D.C.M.).'

<4> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, Area Plan 2 (Monograph). SWX800.

<4.1> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, Area Plan 2 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<5> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, SJ Lobb, MPPA, Mar-2000 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210006 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 26 2022 12:36PM