Monument record MDO4021 - Enclosure on South Down, Ibberton

Visited LJK/CJP 10.4.91 No visible traces. Area walked- no finds.

This earthwork is situated on an east facing slope amid an Iron Age / Romano-British type Field System (ST 70 NE 11). It consists of a bank which averages 5.0m wide and 0.4m high, with an outer ditch. The ditch is poorly defined but averages 2.5m wide and 0.2m. deep, except on the north side where it has been destroyed by a modern track. The earthwork resembles the fairly common hilltop enclosures of the Iron Age / Romano-British type. There is an entrance, probably original, on the south side of the enclosure but it is in poor condition. The site is under grass. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1902 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 80650691) Earthwork

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 125 (Monograph). SDO146.

(11) SETTLEMENT, Romano-British, on South Down (80530692), has been destroyed by ploughing. It lay at 625 ft. above O.D., overlooking a dry valley, on the N. shoulder of a spur dropping eastward from the main Chalk escarpment. The site, already ploughed when investigated, included a small group of platforms, three certain and two probably, levelled into the slope; they measured about 20 ft. across and were backed by curving scarps. About 90 yds. E. of the platforms and probably associated with them was a small enclosure of 1/8 acre, with four unequal sides, rounded corners and an entrence on the S. It was defined by a low back up to 2 ft. high and 15 ft. across, with an external ditch, most clearly marked on the S. Coarse Romano-British pottery and a few samian fragments were found in the platforms but none was found in the enclosure. 'Celtic' fields which surrounded the settlement site are directly related to the enclosure.

<4> DCC SMR, to 2003, Former DCC SMR Card Index (Index). SWX8285.

Visited Laurence Keen/Claire Pinder 10.4.91. No visible traces. Area walked - no finds.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 881610 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Ibberton, South Down Settlement Earthwork, Dorset: " XXIII 8" written on the top of the survey. Another survey of this earthwork exisets, but to a different scale (GAM 881809)Bibliographic References : 1) Pt 1, monument (11

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 881809 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Settlement on South Down, Ibberton, Dorset: See HOB 881610 for another version of the same survey, but to a different scale.Bibliographic References : 1) Pt 1, Monument (11) not illustrated

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, RCH01/096 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME Inventory: Dorset III (Central): A large collection of archive relating to the RCHME Dorset Inventory Volume III, published in 1970. It contains field surveys and excavation archive. Parish files containing original surveys have been given child collection status.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205554 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 8 2022 8:43AM