Monument record MDO5094 - Ring ditch, Tarrant Launceston

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is defined by a single ring ditch with a break to the south-east which almost encloses a circular area measuring circa 16.5m in diameter. Total diameter circa 22m. The size and shape of the enclosure suggest that it is the plough levelled remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. There is no sign of any barrow mound or other internal feature such as a funerary deposit.

A possible Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is centred at ST 9411 0928 and is defined by a single ring ditch with a break to the south-east which almost encloses a circular area measuring circa 16.5m in diameter.

The size and shape of the enclosure suggest that it is the plough levelled remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, several of which are known in this area. There is no sign of any barrow mound or other internal feature such as a funerary deposit. <1, 1.1, 2, 2.1>

A ring ditch visible on oblique aerial photographs taken by Francesca Radcliffe <4>. Interpreted as being the probable remains of a Bronze Age round barrow.

The feature is visible as a pronounced circular annular cropmark c 22m in diameter on an aerial photograph dated 1969 <3> and was digitally plotted from this source during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> National Monuments Record, 28-MAR-1968, NMR ST 9409/1, NMR ST 9409/1 28-MAR-1968 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18477.

<1.1> National Monuments Record, 28-MAR-1968, NMR 68/38, NMR 68/38 28-MAR-1968 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18478.

<2> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1969, NMR ST 9409/4, NMR ST 9409/4 11-JUL-1969 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18479.

<2.1> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1969, NMR 127/13, NMR 127/13 11-JUL-1969 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18480.

<3> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1969, NMR 127/14 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18040.

<4> Radcliffe, F M, Oblique aerial photographs, FR 12/30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13178.

<5> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1991, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1990, p128 (Serial). SDO90.

‘Crop-mark of possible ring-ditch. (FR 12/30).’

<6> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis, Object Number: MD002384 (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1481020 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 8 2022 10:38AM