Monument record MDO40279 - Bronze Age barrow, Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles

A Bronze Age barrow to the northeast of Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on 1997 and 2010 aerial photographs. It measures 13.9m in diameter with a 1.4m wide outer ditch. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

The cropmark of a probable Bronze Age ring ditch can be seen on Historic England Reconnaissance aerial photographs taken in 2010. This ring ditch is situated south of Creech Hill Bungalows at SU 0391 1255. <2>

A sub-circular ring ditch to the northeast of Glebe Farm, Wimborne St Giles, is visible as a cropmark on 1990s aerial photographs. <1>

The feature measures 13.9m in diameter with a 1.4m wide outer ditch. The feature is presumed to represent a Bronze Age barrow.

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<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, 1597546 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 14 2022 12:01PM