Monument record MDO37347 - Possible 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 Bronze Age round barrow was recorded as cropmarks on 2015 Historic England oblique aerial photographs. It has a diameter of about 20m. It is part of a cluster of seven barrows ((NRHE 1622730, 1622728, 1622725, 1622724, 1622722). It is centred at ST 9382 0236. <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, 1622729 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 13 2023 4:40PM