tumulus
tumulus is an archaeological site in Shapwick, East Dorset District, England. tumulus is situated nearby to Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew, as well as near The Charles Bennett Village Green.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew and St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford.
Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew
Church
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew is situated 880 feet east of tumulus.
St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford is situated 1¼ miles northwest of tumulus.
Badbury Rings
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of the fort, and there was a Romano-British town known as Vindocladia a short distance to the south-west. Badbury Rings is situated 2 miles northeast of tumulus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spetisbury and Almer.
Spetisbury
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spetisbury is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum. According to the Domesday Book of 1086, the village had 30 households.
Almer
Hamlet
Photo: Brendan and Ruth McCartney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Almer is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Almer is situated 2 miles southwest of tumulus.
Charlton Marshall
Village
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charlton Marshall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset administrative district, on the A350 road 2 miles south of the market town of Blandford Forum. Charlton Marshall is situated 2½ miles northwest of tumulus.
tumulus
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Shapwick, East Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.81418° or 50° 48′ 51″ northLongitude
-2.09521° or 2° 5′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C2VRW73+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1159325738OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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