Monument record MDO40271 - Bronze Age barrow, Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles

A sub-circular double concentric ring ditch to the southeast of Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on 1997 and 2010 aerial photographs. Situated to the north-west of The Drive Plantation. The feature may represent a Bronze Age barrow. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

The cropmark of a probable Bronze Age ring ditch can be seen on HE Reconnaissance aerial photographs taken in 2010. This ring ditch is situated to the north-west of The Drive Plantation at SU 0404 1213. <2>

A sub-circular double concentric ring ditch to the southeast of Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on a 1997 aerial photograph. <1>

The ring ditch measures 24m in diameter with a 2.4m wide outer ditch and a 0.6m inner ditch, the two being 5m apart. A small 1.75m in diameter hollow is visible in the centre of the feature. The feature is presumed to represent a Bronze Age barrow.

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> National Monuments Record, 23-OCT-1997, NMR 15841/013 (SU0312/026) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15765.

<2> National Monuments Record, 20-OCT-2010, NMR 26800_019-037 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18765.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1597548 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 11 2022 2:53PM