Monument record MDO44610 - Penannular ring ditch, possibly a Bronze Age round barrow, 140m west of Paul’s Copse, Cranborne

Faint cropmarks of a penannular ring ditch, approximately 15m in diameter is visible on English Heritage’s Reconnaissance photographs taken in 2009. It may be a Bronze Age round barrow.

Faint cropmarks of a penannular ring-ditch, approximately 15m in diameter, is visible on English Heritage Reconnaissance photographs taken on 27th August 2009. It is roughly centred at SU 0696 1369, 140m west of Paul’s Copse and 50m south of the road bordering the north end of the field. It is defined by a single ditch with a wide break on its western side. Considering its proximity to two other complete ring ditches, NRHE 1615428 and NRHE 1615429, it may be a funerary Bronze Age round barrow. <1>

<1> Historic England, 17-AUG-2009, HEA 26465_040 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18741.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1615430 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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