Monument record MDO5741 - Bowl barrow, one of the High Lea Farm Group, Hinton Martell

One of a loose cluster of at least ten round barrows visible as slight earthworks and crop marks on aerial photographs. In 1975 this monument was recorded as being around 110 feet in diameter with a mound about 2½ feet high. The barrow was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Stour NMP. Only the southern portion of the barrow is visible the northern edge cut by a modern farm track.

A Bronze Age round barrow was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Stour NMP (2-4). It is one of at least ten barrows known as the High Lea Farm group. The barrow is 35m across but only the southern portion of the barrow is visible, the northern edge cut by a modern farm track.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 31 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘High Lea Farm Group comprises at least ten barrows sited in a field, about 135 ft. above O.D., on a gentle N.W. slope falling to the R. Allen. Only (17) and (26) survive as earthworks; the others form a scatter in the same field and are visible as soil-marks on air photographs (N.M.R., ST 9906/1). . . (26) Bowl (00230640), partly cut by a track and damaged by ploughing; diam. 110 ft., ht. 2½ ft.’

<2> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1989, NMR 4527/15-17 (NMR SU0006/4-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15718.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 24-JUL-1995, OS/95633 V 224-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15716.

<4> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

Record last edited

Jul 30 2024 3:06PM