Monument record MDO5876 - Ring ditch North East of King Down Farm, Pamphill

One of three ring ditches visible on aerial photographs, and interpreted as probable round barrows. They lie close to the modern hedge. The site was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

Three ring ditches, 'A' ST 97340413 … probably the remains of barrows, appear on an air photograph. They lie close together in a line beside a modern hedge, NE of King Down. 'A' is about 50ft diameter. <1>

The western of three pough-levelled round barrows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-3> immediately to the north of a modern hedgeline to the north-east of King Down Farm. The barrow is 16m across and comprises a central mound with external ditch. It was digitally plotted during the Middle Dorset Stour AIM.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 52 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Three ring-ditches, probably the remains of barrows, appear on an air photograph (N.M.R., ST 9806/1). They lie close together in a line beside a modern hedge, N.E. of King Down Farm. (78) Barrow? (97340413); diam. about 50 ft'.

<1.1> NMR ST 9806/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19377.

<2> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<3> Royal Air Force, 25-JAN-1956, RAF/540/1789 V 24 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18049.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209582 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 9 2023 4:14PM