Monument record MDO6431 - Bronze Age round barrow, Knowlton Barrow Group, Woodlands

The site of a Bronze Age 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 27m 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 on aerial photographs (2-4). 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 27m across, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The eastern edge is not visible being cut by the B3078.

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)… (35) Barrow, levelled by ploughing; diam. about 65 ft.'

<2> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<3> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

<4> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-1989, NMR 4554/37-44 (SU 0209/18-23) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15725.

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 11:57AM