Monument record MDO3345 - Pond barrow, Big Wood Lodge, Winterbourne Abbas

SY 60068936. A very regular circular depression 23.0m in diameter and 0.6m. deep, possibly a pond barrow but no real evidence of an encircling bank. Ploughed. Discovered during field investigation. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <1>

Field investigations in 1980 identified a possible Bronze Age pond barrow visible as a regular circular depression, 23 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres deep. This feature is also visible on aerial photographs <2> as an earthwork circular hollow surrounded by an outer bank and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey (Index). SDO12304.

'As above. Traces of bank on the west (upper side). Under pasture. 7/5/D.'

<1> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 24-MAR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3097-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11790.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452560 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 27 2025 1:56PM