Monument record MDO37618 - Round barrow south of Crab Farm, Shapwick

A ring-ditch visible as a dark circular cropmark around 15 metres in diameter on aerial photographs. This feature, about 15 metres in diameter, is interpreted as the remains of a round barrow. The ring ditch was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

A pair of ring ditches are visible as cropmarks on air photographs taken 15 April 2002. Also visible, albeit more faint, are possible linear features and an enclosure. <1>

There is some indication, albeit indistinct, that there may be an inner concentric ditch with a diameter of c 10 metres. No evidence for surviving earthworks or other associated features could be discerned.

The ring-ditch visible as a dark circular cropmark on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project (4).

<1> 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/07 ST 9502/21 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19380.

<2> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<3> Papworth, M, 1994, Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region (Unpublished document). SDO14228.

One of a group of four ring ditches visible on aerial photograph ST9502/8. Probably a Bronze Age round barrow but possibly a hut circle levelled by ploughing. Diameter 13m. The Romano-British scatter 112,029 lies immediately to the north -east. The site was field walked in 1987 and fragments of Bronze Age pottery were found with the Roman pottery. There is no visible trace of the site on the ground.

<4> L. Sydenham, 1953, The Town and Abbey of Shaftesbury (Monograph). SDO18011.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1403311 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 9 2023 3:32PM