Monument record MDO40568 - Possible Bronze Age barrow, Holfleet Cottage, Burton

A ring ditch to the south of Holfleet Cottage,Winkton, is visible as a cropmark on 2006 aerial photographs. The feature is considered most likely to be a barrow of Bronze Age origin. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ring ditch to the south of Holfleet Cottage,Winkton, is visible as a cropmark on 2006 aerial photographs <2 and 3>.

The ring ditch is around 26m in diameter with an outer 1.8m wide ditch. It is considered most likely that the feature is a funerary barrow of probable Bronze Age origin.

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

The faint cropmark traces of a single ring ditch, probably the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow visible at approximately SZ 1663 9593 on aerial photographs taken by English Heritage in September 2006. <1>

<1> National Monuments Record, 07-SEP-2006, NMR 24320/4 (SZ 1695/4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18772.

<2> National Monuments Record, 07-SEP-06, NMR 24320/1 (SZ 1695/1) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15854.

<3> National Monuments Record, 07-SEP-06, NMR 24320/05 SZ1695/05 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15855.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1503494 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 11 2022 4:46PM