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).

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Feb 13 2023 10:29AM