Monument record MDO40738 - Bronze Age oval barrow or later extractive pit, High Lea Dairy, Hinton

An egg-shaped cropmark 32m by 25m across, is on aerial photographs to the southeast of High Lea Dairy, Hinton Parva. It lies in a field to the south of Witchampton Lane which contains a number of Bronze Age round barrows form part of a larger linear grouping and an extension of the High Lea Farm Group . The feature is possibly the site of a prehistoric burial monument, its appears to be a hollow and may be a pond barrow or a later extractive its. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

An egg-shaped cropmark 32m by 25m across, is on aerial photographs to the southeast of High Lea Dairy, Hinton Parva (1). It lies in a field to the south of Witchampton Lane which contains a number of Bronze Age round barrows form part of a larger linear grouping and an extension of the High Lea Farm Group . The feature is possibly the site of a prehistoric burial monument, its appears to be a hollow and may be a pond barrow or a later extractive its. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR 15324/32-3 (NMR ST 9905/7-8) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15926.

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