Monument record MDO6002 - Round barrow, Shapwick

The ploughed out remains of a Bronze Age round barrow, surviving now only as a ring-ditch visible on aerial photographs. The ring ditch was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

A ring ditch 12.5m across is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (4). It is considered likely to be the remains of a Bronze Age round barrow and was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. It lies immediately to the south of the long linear described in MDO37361.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 63 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(37) Barrow (93430389) appearing as a ring-ditch soil-mark on air photographs. (N.M.R>, ST 9303/1, 2), has been levelled.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 49 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a low rise 24.5m dia. north-east to south-west and 26m dia. north-west to south-east and 0.8m high. A quarry ditch is visible around the burial mound on aerial photograph NMR ST9403/1. This photograph shows a soil mark with a dark central area surrounded by a ring of chalky soil. Another ditch 112,772 appears to link the ring ditch tangentially with that of 112,057 on the south-west sides of these barrows. They lie on a south east slope and RCHM (1975) considers that one of these two barrows is the Badbury Barrow described by Austin (1846, 348) but see 112,059.

<4> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, HEA 29560/038 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18304.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209688 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 14 2023 7:21PM