Monument record MDO5108 - Bowl barrow, Tarrant Monkton

The remains of a bowl barrow in Pond Bottom Plantation with a diameter of 50 feet and a height of 6 feet. A surrounding ditch was noted, but was too indistinct for meaningful measurement. Situated close to another barrow, just 12 metres apart. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The barrow is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

(ST 92090766, ST 92100762) Tumuli (NR). <2>

'A' ST 92090767. A bowl barrow, 50 ft in diameter and 6 ft high, with a surrounding ditch too ill-defined for measurement. <1>

ST 92090766; ST 92090762. The remains of two bowl barrows in Pond Bottom Plantation. The barrows are 12 metres apart and survive as mounds measuring 15 and 16 metres in diameter and up to 2.3 metres high. Scheduling amended. <3>

Note: 2 barrows were originally recorded under a single NRHE UID 209376 but were subsequently separated into 2 separate records on the Dorset HER – being MDO5108 & MDO5109.
MDO5108 = ST 90 NW 38a.
MDO5109 = ST 90 NW 38b.

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs as a 12m in diameter mound with part of a possible outer ditch on its north side. The centre of the mound may have had some antiquarian excavation. <5>

The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 110 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(23) Bowl (92090767), 310 ft. above O.D., lies at the S.E. end of a broad Chalk spur on the W. of Pond Bottom Plantation; diam. 50 ft., ht. 6 ft.; ditch as in (22).'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

<3> DCMS, 2002, Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduling amendment, 03-SEP-2002, EH Scheduling amendment, 03-SEP-2002 (Scheduling record). SDO18493.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209376 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4008 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18888.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2025 4:36PM