Monument record MDO6011 - Straw Barrow, Shapwick

A heavily ploughed Bronze Age bowl barrow. In 1975 the RCHME recorded this monument as approximately 65 feet in diameter, with a mound standing some 3 feet high. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Grinsell notes diameter 23 paces, height 3 feet. On arable; many pieces of sandstone on surface. <1>

Straw Barrow, a bowl barrow formerly 65 ft in diameter and 3 ft high, but heavily ploughed. <2>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 129 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 63 (Monograph). SDO129.

'46) Straw Barrow (94670312), bowl, is now heavily ploughed; former diam. 65 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 94660312) Straw Barrow (NR)

<4> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

A bowl barrow is visible as a low rise 18m dia. and 0.5m high. It lies on the crest of a south facing spur of chalk. Two fragments of Romano British pottery were found on the mound when it was visited. One of decorated Samian the other of a black burnished ware. The mound is chalkier than the surrounding field. This site is called “Straw Barrow” from the early 19th earlier maps and surveys refer to the “Bradford Barrow” 112,245 as “Straw Barrow” (e.g. Woodward 1773)

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209619 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 11:12AM