Monument record MDO41660 - Possible late prehistoric enclosure, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

Ditched curvilinear features to the southwest of New Barn Farm are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features are ephemeral and disjointed but may potentially form a large enclosure of possible late prehistoric date. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project..

Ditched curvilinear features to the southwest of New Barn Farm are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (1-2). The features are ephemeral and disjointed but appear to comprise several sections of curvilinear ditch that potentially form the S, W and E sides of a large curvilinear enclosure approximately 118m in diameter. Several shorter sections of ditch at the southwest end may underlie banked linear features thought to belong to a field system (MDO41659) of possible Iron Age to Romano-British date but the relationship is not clear from aerial photographic evidence alone. The features may also be late prehistoric in date, potentially pre-Iron Age. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

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Sep 5 2018 2:34PM