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Tadnoll Barrow
Hob Uid: 453888
Location : Dorset Moreton, Crossways
Grid Ref : SY7914208746
Summary : Earthwork remains of a possible bowl barrow and tree clump enclosure situated on a slight knoll. The features are cut by the parish boundary with Moreton, and the eastern side has been destroyed by a road. In a survey published in 1970 the barrow was noted as surviving as an earthwork with a diameter of 17metres and a height of 1.5 metres. A field survey of 1979 found the probable tree-clump enclosure surviving on the east and west sides of the road, as a broad bank 4.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with an outer ditch 2.0 metres wide and 0.3 metre deep, about 30 metres in overall diameter. A clump of mature conifers covered the site.
More information : (SY 79148747) Tadnoll Barrow (NR). (1) Tadnoll Barrow, bowl (?) (SY 79148747). On slight knoll in heathland and cut by parish boundary with Moreton, E of which road has destroyed two-thirds of site. Diam about 56 ft, ht about 5 ft; around, and 3 ft from it on W, is a probable tree-clump enclosure, about 75 ft in diameter. (2,3) Tadnoll Barrow (name not confirmed) a severely mutilated probable bowl barrow, is generally as described by RCHM (2). The probable tree-clump enclosure survives on the east and west sides of the road, as a broad bank 4.5m wide and 0.5m high, with an outer ditch 2.0m wide and 0.3m deep, about 30.0m in overall diameter. A clump of mature conifers covers the site. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (4)

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Source details : OS 6" 1963
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Tree Enclosure Ring
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : DO 332
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External Cross Reference Source : Unified Designation System UID
External Cross Reference Number : 1003223
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SY 78 NE 9
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1979-12-04
End Date : 1979-12-04

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Tadnoll Barrow