Monument record MDO45429 - Probable Bronze Age round barrow, West Hemsworth, Witchampton

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a sub-circular ring ditch cropmark to the east of West Hemsworth, Witchampton, on a 2019 aerial photograph. The feature may be part of a larger barrow group, positioned in pairs. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Recent aerial photography reveals the cropmarks of a probable Prehistoric or Roman round barrow cemetery, comprising at least six round barrows: three ring ditches visible as an east-west line at ST 971 057 and a second line of three at ST 973 055-ST 973 056. Also visible, by this second line, is a small U-shaped curvilinear enclosure, at ST 972 056. <1>

A probable Bronze Age round barrow is visible as a sub-circular ring ditch cropmark to the east of West Hemsworth, Witchampton, on a 2019 aerial photograph <2>. The feature comprises a ring ditch of approximately 14m diameter. A second larger ring ditch located immediately to the west (MDO45428) may form a pair with this one. They may be part of a larger barrow group, all positioned in pairs. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Miller, Andrew, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment AM (Verbal communication). SDO17356.

<1.1> NMR ST 9705/7-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19344.

<2> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-1996, NMR 15560/22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19301.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 3 2023 11:57AM