Monument record MDO5278 - Round barrow, Winterborne Kingston

The probable site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. The site comprises a ring ditch 20m across with an internal mound which is still visible as a slight earthwork on lidar imagery.

SY 84239763. A soil mark suggesting the former existence of a barrow is also visible on air photograph. <1>
The probable site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <4> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. The site comprises a ring ditch 20m across with an internal mound which is still visible as a slight earthwork on lidar imagery <5>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 303 (Monograph). SDO136.

'… A soil-mark suggesting the former existence of a barrow at 84239763 is visible on an air photograph (St. Joseph, O.A.P., LR 850).'

<1.1> Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, CUCAP LR 85 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19684.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456043 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<4> Google Earth, 01-JAN-2005, Google Earth 2005 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18557.

<5> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Jun 18 2023 8:02PM