Monument record MDO6048 - Hut circle, Shapwick

A circle of post holes recorded by the National Trust during work to the Kingston Lacy Beech Avenue in 1989, and interpreted as a hut circle. The post holes formed a circle 6.5 metres in diameter, with a porch on the south-east side.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1990, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1989, 105-106 (Serial). SDO89.

‘At ST95820284 a group of post-holes were excavated: the average size of these was 0.3 m dia. and 0.3 m deep. They formed the plan of a round house 6.5 m in diameter with a porch on the south-east side. Pottery from one of the post holes indicated a Bronze Age date.’

<2> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 100 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

The post-holes for a Bronze Age round house with a diameter of 6.5m were excavated during work on the new beech avenue in February 1989. The southern half of the round house was excavated together with the porch and south-east entrance. The seven post-holes measured between 0.2m – 0.3m dia. and 0.1 – 0.5m deep. A single piece of Bronze Age pottery was found in one of the post-holes. They lay beneath a Romano-British ploughsoil (Papworth 1992,66).

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