Monument record MDO44702 - Possible long barrow or pillow mound, Shillingstone Hill, Shillingston

An undated elongated mound is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery on Shillingston Hill, Shillingston; it is 28m by 4m in size and flanked by two parallel ditches. It lies in close proxiomity to the settlement described in MDO4678 and may be a contemporary feature; alternatively it could be the site of a medieval or post medieval pillow mound or even a Neolithic long barrow. It is marked on the OS 1st edition map and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

An undated elongated mound is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery on Shillingston Hill, Shillingston <1>; it is 28m by 4m in size and flanked by two parallel ditches. It lies in close proxiomity to the settlement described in MDO4678 and may be a contemporary feature; alternatively it could be the site of a medieval or post medieval pillow mound or even a Neolithic long barrow. It is marked on the OS 1st edition map <2> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

<1> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Mar 15 2023 5:35PM