Monument record MDO40275 - Bronze Age barrow, Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles

A Bronze Age barrow to the northwest of Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark of a ring ditch on aerial photographs. The feature measures 27m in diameter with a 1.7m wide outer ditch. There appears to be a small 5.5m diameter sub-circular hollow at its centre. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

SU 03391242. Ring ditch, diameter 23m, visible on air photograph. <1-2>

A sub-circular ring ditch to the northwest of Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on a 2007 aerial photograph <5>. It also appears as a less well defined feature on a 1989 aerial photograph and again in 2005 <3-4>.

The feature measures 27m in diameter with a 1.7m wide outer ditch. There appears to be a small 5.5m in diameter sub-circular hollow at its centre. The feature is presumed to represent a Bronze Age barrow.

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 9, Wimborne St Giles 128 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<2> Royal Air Force, RAF 58/3250 0055 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18764.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 05-MAY-1989, OS89135 V 313-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15767.

<4> Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

<5> National Monuments Record, 06-JUN-2007, NMR24636/041 (SU0312/034) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15768.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 760400 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 26 2024 11:32AM