Monument record MDO8201 - Bronze Age round barrow, Northport Heath, Wareham St Martin

A circular mound is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery of Northport Heath, Wareham St Martin. It is considered possible this could be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow.

Two mounds on Northport Heath may be either barrows or upcasts from an adjoining pond. 'B'-SY 90418935 Mound, 13 x 9 paces diameter but no height given. <2>

Probably upcasts from gravel digging. <3>

SY 903894. Round barrow on Northport Heath. Scheduled. <4>

A circular mound, approximately 15m in diameter, is visible as an earthwork on Lidar imagery of Northport Heath, Wareham St Martin <2>. It is considered possible this could be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1927 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 903893) Tumuli (NR) (two shown)

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

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 455 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 71 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456742 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2024 1:51PM