Monument record MDO5154 - Barrow, Tarrant Rushton

Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1972 the RCHME reported that the monument formerly survied as a small mound with a pit dug into its centre, but had more recently been levelled by cultivation. Grinsell (1959) notes that this barrow was destroyed in or by 1939. The barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs taken in 1995 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.

A bowl barrow situated on a ridge top. It was formerly a small mound with a pit dug in the centre, but has now been destroyed by cultivation. <3>

The barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 14m across on aerial photographs taken in 1995 <5> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1902 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 94620440) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 137 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 113 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(14) Bowl (94620440), 700 yds. N.E. of (13), lies on a ridge top at 250 ft. above O.D. It was formerly a small mound with a pit dug in the centre, but has now been destroyed by cultivation.'

<4> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR 15315/53 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18312.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209611 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2023 7:48AM