Monument record MDO41669 - Bronze Age barrow, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

A ring ditch to the northwest of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature is considered likely to be a Bronze Age barrow and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ring ditch to the northwest of New Barn Farm is visible as a faint cropmark on aerial photographs (1).

The feature is approximately 16.3m in diameter with a 1.2m wide outer ditch . The feature is considered likely to be a Bronze Age barrow; it is the southernmost of a close grouping of six similar features (See MDOs 41670 to 41674) and part of a wider concentration of Bronze Age barrows in the near vicinity.

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

<1> National Monuments Record, 04-SEP-95, NMR 15396/52-4 (ST9501/8-10) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16215.

<2> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 80 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

One of a cluster of seven ring ditches, partially enclosed by linear ditch 112,491, is visible on aerial photograph CUAP AXM58. It is probably the remains of a levelled Bronze Age round barrow and has an estimated diameter of 20m. A vague swelling scattered with flint nodules is all that is visible on the site on the ground.

Record last edited

Sep 10 2024 10:01AM