Monument record MDO1698 - Pillow mound on Henning Hill, Melcombe Horsey

ST 75750158. A pillow mound, as described by RCHM <1> ; it is rather poorly preserved, being partly vegetation covered, and fast becoming very disturbed (by rabbits). Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 175 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(22) PILLOW MOUND (75750157), lies on the steep W. slope of Henning Hill at about 500 ft. above O.D. immediately below the line of an old track. The mound is 70 ft. long, 18 ft. across and 1½ ft. high; its long axis extends up and down the slope. The centre has been disturbed. Ditches 9 ft. across and 1 ft. deep occur along the sides of the mound, but they do not appear to return around the ends; however, throw-out from the track may well have obscured a ditch at the uphill end, and soil creep may mask a ditch at the downhill end.'

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3179-81, 3179 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17530.

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F1 JWS 12-DEC-78 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201898 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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