Monument record MDO46518 - Bronze Age round barrow, Stag Gate Wood, Sturminster Marshall

A probable Bronze Age round barrow to the south of Stag Wood Gate, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as a sub-circular ring ditch on a 2007 aerial photograph and 2022 Google Earth imagery. The feature is part of a larger barrow group of at least nine eight possible barrows. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Faint cropmarks show a group of at least 7 ring ditches probably from Bronze Age round barrows. Seen in 2007 aerial photography. <1>

A probable Bronze Age round barrow to the south of Stag Wood Gate, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as a sub-circular ring ditch on a 2007 aerial photograph and 2022 Google Earth imagery <2, 3>. The feature is approximately 22m in diameter and forms part of a larger barrow group of at least nine possible barrows. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> 06-JUN-2007, NMR SY 9398/08 NMR 24631/44 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20190.

<2> National Monuments Record, 06-JUN-2007, NMR 24631/046 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19940.

<3> Google Earth, 01/01/2022, Google Earth 2022 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18611.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1518310 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 14 2023 7:55AM