Monument record MDO6291 - Enclosure, possibly a square barrow, Wimborne St Giles

A small rectilinear enclosure, possibly representing an Iron Age square barrow, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. There is a possible entrance in the north-west corner. It was mapped by English Heritage’s Knowlton Circles Project and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

SU 0305 1068. A small rectilinear enclosure, possibly representing an Iron Age square barrow, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The enclosure is defined by a single ditch 12.4m x 11m. It is associated with an extensive barrow cemetery known as the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group (SU 01 SW 52), and was formerly recorded as barrow 42 within this cemetery. <1-2>



SU 0309 1075. A small rectilinear enclosure, possibly representing an Iron Age square barrow, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The enclosure is defined by a single ditch 15.2m x 14.6m, with gaps in its northern and western corners. It is associated with an extensive barrow cemetery known as the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group (SU 01 SW 52), and was formerly recorded as enclosure 43 within this cemetery. <1-3>

The enclosure is visible as a cropmark on a 1995 aerial photograph. <4>

It measures 18.5m long by 19.4m wide with a 2.4m wide external ditch and a probable entrance at its NW corner. The enclosure is likely to be prehistoric in origin, possibly Iron Age or Romano-British in date, although a later date is also possible.

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 101, 114-6 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(43) Enclosure (03101075), rhomboidal, 80 ft. by 60 ft., with a probable entrance at the N.W. corner.'

<2> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1990, NMR 4651/069 (SU0310/003) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15755.

<3> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR SU 0310/10 (NMR 15314/21) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18729.

<4> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR 15314/019 (SU0310/008) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15711.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, Object Number: AF1339047. Object Title: EH: Knowlton Circles, Dorset (Index). SDO14738.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1409868 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 4 2022 9:55AM