More information : (SU 06382060) A much mutilated and overgrown mound which
is probably a long barrow since the track leading up to it from the
south is known locally as 'Longbarrow Lane'.
It is from 37 to 40 metres in length, 9m. wide, 1.0m. in height on
the N side and about 2.0m. in height on the S side. It is orientated
approx. NW-SE.
A boundary hedge runs along the top of the mound which is considerably overgrown with trees. Much mutilated, it now has no very regular shape. Any vestige of a ditch has been expunged on the S side by a trackway and on the N side by cultivation. (1)
The barrow at the end of Long Barrow Lane was a familiar object to
open field farmers in the Middle Ages, who described the furlongs
in its vicinity by their position in relation to it, eg above,
below beyond or at Long Barrow (b). Four trackways or paths converge
upon it, and it was a point on the boundary demarcating the tithings
of West and East Martin. (2)
The remains described in Authy 1 are extremely vague and fragmentary,
but the evidence in Authy 2, the place-name etc and general topo
position of the mound strongly suggests this to be the remains of
a long barrow. (3)
This feature has been located and surveyed on Field Document. (4)
Description of 2.2.54 still correct. Published 1:2500 revised. (5)
(SU 06382060) Long Mound (NAT). (6)
SU 064206. Listed as a long barrow, of which the ditches have not
been located. (7)
Scheduled No 576. (8)
No change. 1:2500 Survey correct. (9)
SU 06382060. Listed as a long barrow. (10)
1:5000 plan and air photo. Unusually for this area there is a ring ditch in close proximity to the long barrow. [SU 02 SE 33]. The two monument types are more closely associated in south east Dorset. (11) |