Monument record MDO41687 - Probable Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

Linear ditched features to the southeast of New Barn Farm are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features are considered likely to be associated with a settlement of Iron Age or Romano-British date. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

ST 959012. Probable settlement visible on air photographs. Small, irregular enclosures immediately E of parallel ditches. <1>

Linear ditched features to the southeast of New Barn Farm are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-5>.

The features comprise sections of curvilinear ditches, some interlinking to form partial enclosures thought likely to be associated with a settlement of Iron Age or Romano-British date. The features are contiguous with a probable late prehistoric trackway (MDO41687; Hob UID 870284) adjacent to the west.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke (Monograph). SWX800.

<1.1> NMR VAP (BKS) ST 9500/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19354.

<1.2> CUCAP OAP AXM 64 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19355.

<2> BKS Surveys Ltd, 07-FEB-68, BKS/3161 629270-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16221.

<3> National Monuments Record, 26-JUN-70, NMR290/100-1 (ST9501/2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16218.

<4> National Monuments Record, 04-SEP-95, NMR/15397/51 (ST9501/0007) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16223.

<5> Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

<6> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

The crop marks of two parallel ditches are visible in fields east of New Barn Farm buildings on aerial photograph NMR ST9501/1. The feature takes a curving course from south to north. The ditches are approximately 10m apart, ignore the modern field boundaries and can be traced for approximately 1km. The single linear ditch (112,497), further north, may be a continuation of this feature. The site may be a trackway of unknown date, possibly prehistoric.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868732 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 6 2023 12:48PM