This Neolithic monument is 196.6m long and about 1.8m high with ditches on either sides. North is on the top right hand side of the picture: the barrow is aligned NE to SW and surrounded by nine Bronze Age round barrows: but only five can be seen in the photograph. Two other round barrows, much disturbed, can be seen at top of the picture on the right hand side of the Dorchester to Bridport road. The two dark blobs on either side of the south western tip are caused by agricultural activity [in more recent photographs they have gone]. To the South West, on the left hand side of the picture, a cross-dyke is clearly visible.

There is no record of the bank barrow being excavated, but a gap near the middle may have been caused either by erosion or some other disturbance. (Source: James Dyer Southern England: An Archaeological Guide, 1977,96) Photo taken in November 1991 from SE - FR76/16.