Monument record MDO6430 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton Barrow Group, Woodlands

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 100 feet in diameter, with a mound about 4 feet high. The site of the round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs . It lies to the southwest of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The ring ditch is 36m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 100 feet in diameter, with a mound about 4 feet high (1). The site of the round barrow is visible as a cropmark ring ditch on aerial photographs (2-3). It lies to the southwest of the southern henge of Knowlton Circles and is one of the extensive Knowlton Circles Barrow Group. The ring ditch is 36m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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

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

'Barrows (29-38) lie S. and S. W. of the South Circle on both sides of the Cranborne-Wimborne road. One of them, when partly levelled, appears to have yielded skeletons (G. A. Cooke, Topographical Description of Dorset (c. 1818), 151) … (34) Bowl; diam. 100ft., ht. 4ft.'

<2> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, JRB 3097/3 (NMR 0209/8) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15724.

<3> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 11:57AM