Monument record MDO47025 - Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, Lower Loop Farm, Lytchett Matravers

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Summary

A sub circular mound to the west of Lower Loop Farm, Lytchett Matravers, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is approximately 30m in diameter and could possibly be a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

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A sub circular mound to the west of Lower Loop Farm, Lytchett Matravers, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature is approximately 30m in diameter and could possibly be a Bronze Age bowl barrow. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 12-DEC-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4244.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. 16-NOV-2021. LIDAR Environment Agency DTM.

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Location

Grid reference SY 9411 9667 (point)
Map sheet SY99NW
Civil Parish Lytchett Matravers; Dorset

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Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 4:07PM

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