Monument record MDO6309 - Barrow, one of the Drive Plantation Group, Wimborne St Giles

A ring ditch visible on aerial photographs and interpreted as a barrow. In 1975 this monument was reported as being about fifteen metres in diameter. At that time the monument was in a ploughed field.

A cropmark feature visible on air photographs. Both RCHME & Grinsell regarded it as a round barrow, RCHME describing it as a ring ditch circa 50 feet in diameter. More recent air photographs appear to show the monument as a sub-rectangular or sub-oval ditched enclosure, orientated northwest-southeast, and possibly open at its northwest end. It may therefore be a long or oval barrow. It is one of a cluster of round barrows, ring ditches and other features scattered around neighbouring fields (see associated monuments). This site was previously recorded as part of SU 01 SW 20.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 101 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(61) Barrow (01421466) appears as a ring ditch on air photograph (N.M.R., SU 0015/6); diam. About 50 ft.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 54 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> National Monuments Record, NMR 4509: 48-51, 55, 62, 65 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18681.

<4> National Monuments Record, NMR 4443: 31-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18682.

<5> National Monuments Record, NMR 15829/19-22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18678.

<6> National Monuments Record, NMR 15810/32-36 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18679.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1309329 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 10 2022 1:41PM