Monument record MDO37339 - Round barrow c 535 metres north west of Swan Way Copse, Shapwick

A plough-levelled Bronze Age round barrow faintly visible as a circular annular cropmark on aerial photographs dated 2005. It was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. The record for this monument has been created with support from Wessex Water.

A penannular ring ditch visible as cropmarks on air photographs taken July 25th 2001. It lies at the southwestern end of a sw-ne aligned linear group of closely spaced ring ditches. The next in line, ST 90 SW 127, lies just 2 metres to the northeast. Circa 18 metres in diameter, the ditch features a south-facing entrance or causeway 3.5 metres wide, the adjacent ditch terminals appearing slightly broader than the remainder of the ditch. (1)

A plough-levelled round barrow with an estimated diameter of c16 metres faintly visible as a circular annular cropmark on aerial photographs dated 2005. No evidence for mound material or internal features could be discerned.

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow 16m across is visible as a cropmark ring ditch. It was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project (3).

<1> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-2001, NMR 21352/05 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18397.

<2> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region, 78 (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

One of two ring ditches visible on aerial photograph NMR ST9403/3. It is probably a levelled Bronze Age round barrow estimated diameter 20m.

<3> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1382820 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 13 2023 10:29AM