Monument record MDO37338 - Round barrow c 530 metres north west of Swan Way Copse, Shapwick

A plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow faintly visible as a circular annular cropmark on aerial photographs dated 2005. It was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. The record for this monument has been created with support from Wessex Water.

A ring ditch, part of a closely-spaced linear group, is visible as cropmarks on air photographs taken July 25th 2001. Circa 16 metres in diameter, it lies just 2 metres northeast of the small ring ditch ST 90 SW 127 and 2 metres southwest of small ring ditch ST 90 SW 129. (1)

A plough-levelled round barrow with an estimated diameter of c14 metres faintly visible on aerial photographs dated 2005. No evidence for mound material or internal features could be discerned.
The site of a plough-levelled round barrow 14m across is visible as a cropmark ring ditch. It was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project (1).

<1> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-2001, NMR 21352/05 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18397.

<2> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 78 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

One of two ring ditches visible on aerial photograph NMR ST9403/3. It is probably a levelled Bronze Age round barrow estimated diameter 15m.

<3> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1382824 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 1 2023 3:51PM