Monument record MDO6044 - Pillow mound, Shapwick
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Summary
A pillow mound, possibly associated with farming of rabbits on Badbury Warren. The mound is visible are earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.
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Full Description
(ST 96050282) Outside the Romano-British enclosure (ST 90 SE 37) is a small rectangular pillow mound. <1>
The mound is 11.0m long in a NW-SE direction and 6.0m wide, with a maximum height of 0.4m. On the NE side of the mound a ditch has a maximum width of 3.0m and is 0.2m deep. It does not appear to go round the end of the mound, but unsurveyable traces of a counterpart are visible on the SW side. The whole is grass covered. <2>
An oval mound 11 metres long, 6metres wide and 0.4 metres high, with a ditch 3 metres wide and 0.2metres deep on the north-east side only. This may be a pillow mound associated with farming of rabbits on Badbury Warren. This land was excluded from the area delineated as Badbury Warren on the 1742 map (DRO) but may have been part of the warren at an earlier date.
The mound is visible are earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <4-5> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project,
Sources/Archives (6)
- <1> SDO12591 Monograph: Crawford, O G S and Keiller, A. 1928. Wessex from the Air. 60 plan.
- <2> SDO11903 Unpublished document: Quinnell, N V. Various. Field Investigators Comments NVQ. F1 NVQ 26-FEB-54.
- <3> SDO14228 Unpublished document: Papworth, M. 1994. Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region.
- <4> SDO18098 Aerial Photograph: Alexander Kieller Collection. 14-JUL-1924. ALK 7415/257.
- <5> SDO18034 Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. 16-NOV-2021. LIDAR Environment Agency DTM.
- <6> SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 209545.
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Location
| Grid reference | ST 9605 0282 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | ST90SE |
| Civil Parish | Shapwick; Dorset |
| Unitary Authority | Dorset |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 3 019 074
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: ST 90 SE 38
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 209545
Record last edited
Feb 3 2023 4:37PM