Monument record MDO37344 - Round barrow SSE of Bishops Court Farm, Shapwick

One of a group of four plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrows visible as a soil marks on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. The record for this monument has been created with support from Wessex Water.

A possible pair of Bronze Age round barrows are visible as cropmarks on 2015 Historic England oblique aerial photographs. They are defined by closely spaced ring ditches each measuring about 20m across. They are part of cluster of seven possible barrows (NRHE 1622730, 1622729, 1622728, 1622725, 1622722). They are centred at ST 9376 0232. <1>

The site of a plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <2>. It is one of a group of possibly eleven barrows forming a barrow cemetery. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

<1> Winton, Helen, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment HW (Verbal communication). SDO18745.

<1.1> 23-APR-2015, Historic England Archive 29561_014-019 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19389.

<2> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, HEA 29561/001 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18305.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1622724 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 11 2023 8:14AM