Monument record MDO6027 - Round barrow, Shapwick

A plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow visible as a concentric double ring ditch. In 1975 the RCHME recorded an overall diameter of approximately 75 feet for this monument. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

'(62) Barrow (93510255), now levelled by ploughing, appears on an air-photograph (N.M.R., ST9401/1) as a pair of concentric ring-ditches; overall diam. 75 ft.' [1]

The ring ditch was digitally recorded from aerial photographs (4) during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project. Remnants of the internal mound is visible on photographs taken in 1982 (5).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 64 (Monograph). SDO129.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 50 (Monograph). SWX1703.

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 Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region (Unpublished document).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

A probable Bronze Age barrow visible on aerial photograph NMR ST9401/1 as a pair of concentric ring ditches. The outer ring ditch diameter is approximately 23m. It lies on a gentle south west slope.

<4> Google Earth, 2009, Google Earth 2009 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15393.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 196 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18308.

Record last edited

Feb 13 2023 4:39PM