Monument record MDO40335 - Probable Bronze Age barrow, St Giles's Park, Wimborne St Giles

A partial ring ditch in St Giles's Park is visible as a cropmark on a 1996 aerial photograph. The feature is presumed to represent a barrow of Bronze Age origin, although its small size may indicate a later, Iron Age to Roman, date. The ring ditch is 14.9m by 12.6 wide with a broadly 1.7m wide outer ditch. The south side of the ring ditch is not visible. This feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on air photographs. It is located within St Giles Park.

A partial ring ditch in St Giles's Park is visible as a cropmark on a 1996 aerial photograph <3>.

The ring ditch is 14.9m by 12.6 wide with a broadly 1.7m wide outer ditch. The south side of the ring ditch is not visible, possibly lost under or obscured by a copse of trees <3>.

The feature is presumed to represent a barrow of Bronze Age origin, although its small size may indicate a later, Iron Age to Roman, date. It is situated immediately adjacent to the south side of a large ditched enclosure considered to be a possible Neolithic long barrow (MDO40334).

The feature is still faintly visible on a 2014 aerial photograph <4> and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-1996, NMR SU 0411/1-3 (15561/01-03) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18692.

<2> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-1996, NMR SU 0411/4-5 (15544/18-19) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18693.

<3> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-96, NMR 15561/002 (SU0411/002) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15781.

<4> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1310777 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 20 2022 11:07AM