Monument record MDO2245 - Linear features, Puddletown

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. … 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> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR (Index). SDO12304.

No visible trace, the field newly ploughed and harrowed when viewed from RCHM Burleston 6 to ENE. There are vague soil marks in the field but nothing clearly a barrow from this vantage point. The position of these ring ditches faces the barrow group on Lords Down and is visible from there. Papworth MDJ, TWA 19.11.85

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 891547 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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