Monument record MDO41682 - Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

A D-shaped ditched enclosure to the north of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature may be an enclosure of late prehistoric origin, potentially Iron Age to Romano-British in date. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A D-shaped ditched enclosure to the north of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (1).

The feature comprises a D-shaped ditched enclosure approximately 39m long and between 23m and 32m wide. It imay be an enclosure of late prehistoric origin, potentially Iron Age to Romano-British in date.

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

<1> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-47, RAF/CPE/UK/2102 RP 3251-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16219.

<2> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 95 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

Four rectilinear enclosures are visible on aerial photograph NMR ST9402/6. 112,736 is the most northerly of the group and is roughly square with sides approximately 50m long, the north side slightly narrower and curved at the north-east corner. The enclosure probably dates from the Bronze Age – Romano-British period. There is nothing visible on the ground.

Record last edited

Oct 4 2021 7:29PM