Monument record MDO40313 - Bronze Age barrow, St Giles's Park, Edmondsham

A large sub-circular ring-ditch on the south side of the Drive Plantation, St Giles's Park, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1989 and 2010. The feature is presumed to represent a Bronze Age barrow.

The cropmark of a probable Bronze Age ring ditch can be seen on HE Reconnaissance aerial photographs taken in 2010. This large ring ditch is situated to the west of The Drive Plantation at SU 0459 1175.

A large sub-circular ring-ditch on the south side of the Drive Plantation, St Giles's Park, is visible as a cropmark on a 1989 aerial photograph <1>. The feature is 30.6m in diameter with a 2m wide outer ditch and is presumed to represent a Bronze Age barrow. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 05-MAY-89, OS89135 V 284-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15761.

<2> National Monuments Record, 20-OCT-2010, NMR 26800_038-047 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18690.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1597550 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 18 2022 3:48PM