Monument record MDO2243 - Ring ditch, Puddletown

One of two circular crop marks seen during a drought in 1984 and interpreted as a ring ditch, the probable remains of a Bronze Age round barrow.

SY77229606 and SY77259602. Two ring-ditches each perhaps 10-20m in diameter. Two linear features in the South-East corner of the field leading North-East to the fload plain are centred on SY77319598. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 114 (Serial). SDO84.

'PUDDLETOWN AND BURLESTON. Drought conditions in September 1984 and cultivation since have revealed a variety of buried landscape features, all probably of prehistoric date, lying on either side of the valley separating the parishes of Puddletown and Burleston, 2 km south of Dewlish village.

On the west side of the valley, in Puddletown parish, two ring ditches, each perhaps 10-20 m in diameter were visible in a crop of rape (approximately SY 77229606 and 77259602). Other marks lower down the hillside include two linear features in the south-east corner of the field, heading north-east to the flood plain (SY 77319598). … The above is only a preliminary note, the result of the examination of photographs without detailed plotting or fieldwork.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 891547 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 25 2023 2:47PM