Monument record MDO37619 - Round barrow south of Crab Farm, Shapwick

A ring-ditch visible as a dark circular cropmark around 15 metres in diameter on aerial photographs. This feature, about 15 metres in diameter, is interpreted as the remains of a round barrow. The ring ditch was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

No surviving earthworks of associated features could be discerned. <2>

One of a group of four ring ditches visible on aerial photograph ST9502/8. Probably a Bronze Age round barrow but possibly a hut circle levelled by ploughing. The Romano-British scatter 112,029 overlies this the northern site in the group. The site was field walked in 1987 and fragments of Bronze Age pottery were found with the Roman pottery. There is no visible trace as an earthwork but it was clearly visible on the ground in February 1989 as a soil mark. The ring ditch measured 13m diameter and 2m wide. <3>

The ring-ditch visible as a dark circular cropmark on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project <4>.

<1> 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/07 ST 9502/21 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19380.

<2> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 83 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

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

<4> National Monuments Record, 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18110.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1403311 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 9 2023 3:37PM