Monument record MDO5138 - Bowl barrow on Rawston Down, Tarrant Rawston

A bowl barrow north east of Buzbury Rings. In 1972 this monument was reported as being around 74 feet in diameter with a mound about seven feet high, and surrounded by a ditch 15 feet wide and 1½ feet deep. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The feature is visible as a sub-circular mound encircled by an outer ring ditch on aerial photographs and as a mounded earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A bowl barrow north east of Buzbury Rings. In 1972 this monument was reported as being around 74 feet in diameter with a mound about seven feet high, and surrounded by a ditch 15 feet wide and 1½ feet deep <2>. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

The feature is visible as a sub-circular mound encircled by an outer ring ditch on aerial photographs and as a mounded earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery <4-6>. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1916, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1916, 46 (Serial). SDO25.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 112 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(9) BOWL (92030634), on Rawston Down, 325ft above O.D., lies on the E. crest of a Chalk ridge extending N.W. -S.E.; diam. 74ft., ht 7ft.; surrounding ditch 15ft. Wide and 1½. ft wide deep.'

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 92030634) Tumulus (NR)

<4> National Monuments Record, 08-APR-1976, NMR 915/27-32 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18500.

<5> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4320 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18501.

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

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209346 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 21 2024 3:47PM