Monument record MDO7779 - Windmill Barrow, Lytchett Matravers

A mound thought likely to be the mound on which a windmill was set, though recorded as a possible bowl barrow in the past. The feature is visible as a conical circular mound with a circular depression in the top on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A bowl barrow, diameter 37 paces, height 12ft. covered in firs. Hollow in the centre. Height is about 7ft. from south 12ft. from north. <2> A bowl barrow with no visible ditch. The tree-covered mound has a diameter of 33.0m., and a height of 2.0m. The hollow in the centre is a depression 10.0m. in diameter and 0.4m. deep. In spite of its name, no evidence of a windmill being at the site was found during recording or field investigation. <3> SY 93729774. 'Windmill Barrow' probable windmill mound of pear-shaped form with diameters, 107ft. West to east and 94ft. North to south, and a height of about 11ft. There is an embanked circular depression about 45ft. Diameter on the top of the mound which is situated on the spine of a slight ridge at about 250ft. OD. <4-5> Windmill Barrow (name confirmed) remains as described by Auths 4 and 5. It is scheduled as a barrow, but R.C.H.M. believe it to be a windmill mound. No additional observations can be made to resolve the difference, except that it seems large for a windmill mound. On the Tithe Map the area is called "Fortune Close". Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6> The feature is visible as a conical circular 33m in diameter mound with a circular depression approximately 12m in diameter in the top on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [9]. No outer ditch is visible. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

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Jul 18 2023 4:36PM