Monument record MDO29992 - Cropmarks possibly associated with historic settlement, Woodbury Hill, Bere Regis

An area of rectilinear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs of Woodbury Hill, located within the remains of an Iron Age hillfort (MDO7148). Although there is a possibility that these remains may be contemporary with the hillfort, it is considered more likely these could be the foundations of at least some, if not all, of the twenty-four historic buildings that were reputedly once sited along the track bisecting the hillfort and were demolished during the 19th century.

An area of rectilinear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs of Woodbury Hill (1), located within the remains of an Iron Age hillfort (MDO7148). Although there is a possibility that these remains may be contemporary with the hillfort, it is considered more likely these could be the foundations of at least some, if not all, of the twenty-four historic buildings that were reputedly once sited along the track bisecting the hillfort and were demolished during the 19th century. These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. They are not visible on the most recent comprehensive aerial imagery available to the project.

<1> National Monuments Record, 17-OCT-1971, NMR SY 8594/4 JRB 384 7258 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13139.

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