Monument record MDO6277 - Post-medieval mound in St Giles Park, Wimborne St Giles

Two small banked mounds at St Giles's Park are visible as earthworks on current Lidar imagery and were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project. Earthworks comprising mounds and banks situated in the grounds of St Giles's House. These are thought to be connected with 18th and 19th-century landscaping of the park.

Two small banked mounds at St Giles's Park are visible as earthworks on current Lidar imagery <2>. They are two of a line of five small mounds shown on the OS 1st Edition map <3>. The mounds are thought to represent post medieval mounds or spoil heaps associated with the formal gardens of St Giles's Park.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 100 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(33) Mounds, Banks etc., near St Gile's House (4), appear mostly to be connected with the 18th and 19th century landscaping of the park. A mound (03341114), 4 1/2 ft. high and about 50 ft. diam/, marked on O.S. maps as a tumulus, is probably spoil from the ha-ha which extends to the W. Of three mounds (032114) beside the canal which joins the lake into the grotto (6), two are 15 ft. and one is 40 ft. in diameter; none exceeds 2 ft. in height. A slightly curved bank (03011168), 120 ft. long from N. to S., 25 ft. wide and 5 ft. high, has no associated ditch. A ditch of hollow-way shown on O.S. maps (038113) is 50 ft. to 60 ft. wide and 2 ft. to 3 ft. deep; it extends roughly N.-S. and represents a former track, possibly older than the park'.

<2> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 03341114) Tumulus (NR)

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213803 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 11 2023 4:37PM