Monument record MDO6278 - Post-medieval boundary bank in St Giles Park, Wimborne St Giles

Banked and ditched earthworks visible to the west of ST Giles's House are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project and recorded under MDO40341 but may include features recorded here.

'(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'. (1)

Banked and ditched earthworks visible to the west of ST Giles's House are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (2 and 3). They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project and recorded under MDO40341 but may include features recorded here.

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

<2> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/187 RS 4099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15759.

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

Record last edited

Mar 15 2018 10:05AM