Monument record MDO40239 - Possible post medieval boundary bank, St Giles's Park, Wimborne St Giles

A long banked and ditched earthwork at St Giles's Park is visible on current Lidar imagery. The earthwork may be a garden feature associated with the formal post medieval gardens of St Giles's Park, possibly re-using part of an older prehistoric feature, perhaps a trackway. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A long banked and ditched earthwork at St Giles's Park is visible on current Lidar imagery (1). The earthwork comprises a scarped bank which runs west for 217m then turns 90 degrees to the south where it continues for 215m as a bank with a ditch on its is east side. This element of the feature is still visible on a 2014 aerial photograph (2).

The earthwork may be a garden feature associated with the formal post medieval gardens of St Gile's Park, possibly re-using an earlier feature, perhaps a trackway, of potentially prehistoric origin; this earliest feature may relate to linear features to the south (MDO40151) presumed to be associated with field boundaries and trackways of possible Iron Age or Romano-British origin..

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<2> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

Record last edited

Mar 7 2018 2:21PM