Monument record MDO41675 - Late prehistoric round barrow or enclosure, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

Two curvilinear ditched features to the northwest of New Barn Farm are visible as faint cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features potentially form part of a large ring ditch or enclosure of late prehistoric origin; possibly a large round barrow or agricultural enclosure. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Two curvilinear ditched features to the northwest of New Barn Farm are visible as faint cropmarks on aerial photographs (1).

The sections of ditch are approximately 2.5m wide and are curvilinear in form. If part of a coherent feature they would form a ring ditch approximately 55m in diameter. The features may be those of a large Bronze Age round barrow or alternatively a late prehistoric enclosure, potentially anywhere between Neolithic and Romano-British in date.

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 Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 95 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

Four rectilinear enclosures are visible on aerial photographs NMR ST9402/9 & CUAP AXM58. This site is the most southerly and the least distinct situated against a fence boundary with a 150m length of rectilinear ditch forming its west side. The other sides of the roughly square enclosure are approximately 25m long. There is nothing visible on the ground.

Record last edited

Oct 4 2021 6:51PM