Monument record MDO37400 - Round barrow north of Salisbury Plantation, Wimborne St Giles

A plough-levelled round barrow visible as most of a circular, probably annular, ring ditch cropmark with a diameter of approximately 36 metres on aerial photographs dated 2005. Situated within the Salisbury Plantation Group of barrows.

A cropmark ring ditch visible on air photographs among the Salisbury Plantation barrow group (SU 01 NW 57 and associated monuments). The ring ditch was noted during a rapid examination of air photographs by RCHME in 1993. <1>

NB this site was originally described as part of SU 01 NW 57.

No internal or associated features, nor evidence for survival of bank or mound material could be discerned. The monument is an undesignated member of a barrow group, other members of which are scheduled as DO359 'Barrows in Salisbury Plantation'.

<1> National Monuments Record, NMR 4595: 13-15; NMR 4593: 01-2, 04 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18714.

<2> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1314571 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 27 2022 11:12AM