Monument record MDO3426 - Ring ditch, Winterbourne Steepleton

A cropmark visible on air photographs may represent the site of a plough-levelled round barrow. The western half of a possible ring ditch, around 21 metres in projected diameter, can be seen. The other half, assuming it exists, falls within another field and no cropmark is visible. In 1981, an Ordnance Survey field investigator noted a slight rise in the field bank at the recorded location, but nothing else to indicate the presence of a barrow.

The western half of a ring ditch, approximately 21.0 metres in diameter, is visible at SY 63409056 on an air photograph. The eastern half falls within another field in which no cropmark is discernible. There are no ground indications of a barrow; a slight rise in the field bank at the plotted position is but one of several denoting intermediate stretches of disrepair. Fields under pasture. <1>

Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 246 (Index). SDO12304.

‘No visible trace of a barrow in ley pasture.’

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-APR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<1.1> Woodward, P J, Oral: Peter Woodward, Wessex Archaeology (Verbal communication). SDO20066.

<1.2> Dorset County Council, 1997, Dorset CC Vertical Photograph, 233014 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13619.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453847 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 12 2024 7:50PM