Monument record MDO20525 - Stinsford: barrow

A rapid examination of air photography suggests the presence of a number of probable round barrow sites, of Prehistoric or Roman date, seen as cropmarks southwest of Eweleaze Barn, at: … F - SY 7118 9200 apparently somewhat dislocated at possible entrances (NW, NE, S). <1>

Probable Bronze Age round barrow showing as a cropmarks on aerial photographs. The barrow is 37m across and is sub-oval in shape. It is one of six possible barrows forming a linear barrow cemetery. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <2>

<1> Miller, Andrew, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment AM, 15-FEB-1993 (Verbal communication). SDO17356.

<1.1> National Monuments Record, NMR 4436: 28-30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17562.

<1.2> National Monuments Record, NMR 4527: 40-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17563.

<2> 11-JUL-1989, NMR SY 7191/3-6 (4527/42-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10655.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 983965 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 20 2023 3:55PM