Monument record MDO42877 - Possible Bronze Age barrow, Grimstone Down, Stratton

A low oval mound is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature may be that recorded as a possible Bronze Age round barrow (NHRE Hob UID 1457326). The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project. A barrow at this location is designated as a Scheduled Monument (103771).

A low oval mound is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Grimstone Down, Stratton (1, 2). The feature is visible as a low indistinct mound of elongated oval form, approximately 13.4m long by 9m wide. The feature may be that recorded as a possible Bronze Age round barrow (NHRE Hob UID 1457326), although the NRHE entry locates this slightly to the north at SY 64230 95390. A barrow at this location is designated as a Scheduled Monument (103771). (NB This barrow was originally recorded as part of record HOB uid 453207 - SY 69 NW 43) (Centred SY 645955) Tumuli (NR) (twice) Tumulus (NR (Seven mounds shown). 1) One of a group of round barrows on Grimstone Down:- Barrow 'A' - SY 64239539. (Not listed by RCHM or Grinsell see Authy 4). (Sited from settlement plan with SY 69 NW 38). (2-3) Barrow 'A' - SY 64239539. A ditchless mound apparently undisturbed measuring 9 metres in diameter east-west by 5 metres north-south and 1 metre high at the west and merging into ground level on the east. (4) The barrow is generally as described by Authority (4) . It now measures 10 metres by 6 metres and is 0.8 metres high, and is a possible barrow of simple elongated form. Barrow revised at 1:2500 on MSD. (5)

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