Monument record MDO32555 - Enclosure, Wytch Heath, Corfe Castle

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Summary

An embanked enclosure on Wytch Heath.

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A sub-rectangular enclosure with an embanked perimeter boundary around much of the circuit is shown on the OS 1st edn 25in map (1889) (1). It may have been a plantation enclosure, of which there other examples in the vicinity.


<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

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  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500.

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Location

Grid reference SY 9739 8536 (point)
Map sheet SY98NE
Civil Parish Corfe Castle; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Dec 17 2014 12:02PM

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