Monument record MDO5153 - Round Barrow, Tarrant Rushton

Bronze Age round barrow. In 1972 the RCHME reported that this monument had a diameter of approximately 45 feet and was almost flattened. The barrow is partially visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

The barrow is partially visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <3> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. Only the northwest third of the outer ring ditch is visible; the southern portion being cut by a modern field boundary. The barrow ring appears to have once been about 15m across and is immediately adjacent to another smaller ring ditch described in MDO44701.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 113 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(13) Barrow? (94300383), 100 yds. E.S.E. of (12), has been ploughed almost flat; diam. about 45 ft.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 94110380 ST 94220385 ST 94300383) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, HEA 29560/027 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18301.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209612 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2023 7:32AM