Monument record MDO6427 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton Barrow Group, Woodlands

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 60 feet in diameter, the mound levelled by ploughing. Aerial photographs taken in 2005 show a ring ditch approximately 29 metres in diameter. The site of the round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with inner mound on aerial photographs . It lies to the SW of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 21m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch with inner mound on aerial photographs (3-4). It lies to the SW of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The outer ring ditch is 21m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 213018 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 116 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Barrow, levelled by ploughing; diam. About 60 ft.'

<3> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/37-44 (SU 0209/18-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15725.

<4> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4492/02 (NMR SU 0209/13) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15726.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 11:58AM