Monument record MDO2764 - Bank at Woolcombe, Toller Porcorum

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 155-159 (Serial). SDO84.

'Slight bank; disturbed by small qarry.'

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1990, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1989, 114-115 (Serial). SDO89.

‘Site 11 (SY 55019517) was also surveyed and sampled. This is a slight curved bank, but by a quarry to the E and extending into a neighbouring field to the W where ploughing has removed any surface traces. Casual fieldwalking during the autumn yielded no artifacts in this ploughed area, but a resistivity survey was carried out and the results of this were being processed as this report was written. The results of a small-scale sampling exercise were inconclusive (see below) … Site 11 is a curvilinear earthwork, and again seems to be the only surface survival of a larger feature or complex. Here a small trench was cut at a point where a ditch might run outside the curved bank, but no ditch was present. This trench might well be extended in 1990 to see whether a ditch is separated from the bank by a berm. The soil cover was deeper than might be expected on a site assumed to be unploughed, raising the question whether some ploughing has taken place here. If so, this earthwork might once have been quite substantial. No dating evidence was found, but the general appearance and siting of the earthwork suggests a prehistoric rather than a later date.’

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