Monument record MDO1053 - Round barrow in Poundbury hillfort, Dorchester

A Bronze Age round barrow, visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. The barrow is visible as a banked and ditched earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A barrow situated within Poundbury Camp was evidently encircled by a "chalk berm or dwarf vallum" which could be traced as a scorch mark during the dry summer of 1896. <1> A ditchless, grass covered bowl barrow, 31.0m diameter and averaging 1.5m high. No "chalk berm or dwarf vallum" could be traced. <3> SY 68179110. Bowl (?) barrow, 85ft diameter and 5ft high situated inside the south rampart of Poundbury. Ploughed. <4-5> The barrow is generally as described and measured by Authority (3). Slight indications of a possible berm are visible on the barrow viewed from the south-west, though this may be the result of natural spread. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6> Site of a Bronze Age round barrow lying within Poundbury Iron Age hillfort. A cropmark ring ditch, 33m across, is visible encircling the barrow mound on aerial photographs.<7-9> The barrow is visible as a banked and ditched earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery <7,8 and 10>. The earthwork is around 15m by 16m at its widest extents and is shown to be dissected by a wide trackway on 1940s aerial photographs (5). The remains of a possible ditch are visible on its east side on current Lidar imagery <10>. Also on its eastern side it appears slightly truncated by a later linear banked earth boundary (MWX1054). The barrow is under low heathland vegetation on a 2014 VAP <11> and not clearly visible. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project

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Dec 31 2023 3:50PM