Monument record MDO41678 - Probable Bronze Age round barrow, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

A probable Bronze Age barrow to the north of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature is one of a close grouping five such features and part of a wider concentration of Bronze Age barrows in the near vicinity. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A probable Bronze Age barrow to the north of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (1-2).

The feature comprises a central mound approximately 8.5m in diameter enclosed within an outer ditch approximately 0.9m wide. The feature is one of a close grouping five such features (see MDOS 41676-41680) 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> BKS Surveys Ltd, 07-FEB-68, BKS/3161 629263-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16217.

<2> National Monuments Record, 26-JUN-70, NMR290/100-1 (ST9501/2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16218.

<3> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 85 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

One of a group of five ring ditches, a linear group of four with an outlier to the north. They are sited on the top of a prominent knoll known locally as Fairy Hill. This name may date from the time when the burial mounds were visible. Folklore sometimes attributes Bronze Age barrows to the work of fairys. Ring ditch visible on aerial photograph CUAP AXM64 but no earthwork survives on the ground. This is the eastern central barrow of the group and has an estimated diameter of 20m.

Record last edited

Mar 27 2019 11:56AM