Monument record MDO6044 - Pillow mound, Shapwick

A pillow mound, possibly associated with farming of rabbits on Badbury Warren. The mound is visible are earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

(ST 96050282) Outside the Romano-British enclosure (ST 90 SE 37) is a small rectangular pillow mound. <1>

The mound is 11.0m long in a NW-SE direction and 6.0m wide, with a maximum height of 0.4m. On the NE side of the mound a ditch has a maximum width of 3.0m and is 0.2m deep. It does not appear to go round the end of the mound, but unsurveyable traces of a counterpart are visible on the SW side. The whole is grass covered. <2>

An oval mound 11 metres long, 6metres wide and 0.4 metres high, with a ditch 3 metres wide and 0.2metres deep on the north-east side only. This may be a pillow mound associated with farming of rabbits on Badbury Warren. This land was excluded from the area delineated as Badbury Warren on the 1742 map (DRO) but may have been part of the warren at an earlier date.

The mound is visible are earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <4-5> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project,

<1> Crawford, O G S and Keiller, A, 1928, Wessex from the Air, 60 plan (Monograph). SDO12591.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 26-FEB-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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 Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region (Unpublished document).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

An oval mound 11m long and 6m wide and 0.4m high with a ditch 3m wide and 0.2m deep on the north-east side only. This may be a pillow mound associated with the farming of rabbits on Badbury Warren. This land was excluded from the area delineated as Badbury Warren on the 1742 map (DRO) but may have been part of the warren at an earlier date.

<4> Alexander Kieller Collection, 14-JUL-1924, ALK 7415/257 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18098.

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

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209545 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2023 4:37PM