Monument record MDO1839 - Curvilinear enclosure, Osmington Hill, Osmington

A curvilinear enclosure is clearly visible at SY 72028230 on the south-facing slope of Osmington Hill. (Not mentioned by RCHM). <1>

A low stony bank, at most 0.1m high, running directly down a steep south-facing slope for about 20 metres, is the only remaining trace of this feature. The southern part is now within a modern holiday camp. <2>

The site was digitally plotted from aerial photographs {4} during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. It was considered likely to overlie the medieval strip lynchets described in MWX3629 and is probably not an antiquity. Most likely it is the line of a post medieval or modern trackway.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 454447 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Mead, Richard, Field Investigators Comments RPM, R1 RPM 12-JUN-1979 (Unpublished document). SWX2301.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4448-49 (Aerial Photograph). SWX8419.

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 10-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4449-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11765.

Record last edited

Dec 16 2023 2:39PM